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After losing his mother and battling depression and alcoholism, Glenn Beck took control of his life and rose to stardom. In one of our best interviews, the captivating storyteller and sometimes controversial media personality and entrepreneur shares his personal story of going through rock-bottom into what life is like for him now. He talks about why we become our best selves because of our struggles and why we have the right to failure.

Glenn Beck is a television and radio host, political commentator, author, television network producer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and CEO, and owner and founder of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze.

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]]>After losing his mother and battling depression and alcoholism, Glenn Beck took control of his life and rose to stardom. In one of our best interviews, the captivating storyteller and sometimes controversial media personality and entrepreneur shares his personal story of going through rock-bottom into what life is like for him now. He talks about why we become our best selves because of our struggles and why we have the right to failure.

Glenn Beck is a television and radio host, political commentator, author, television network producer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and CEO, and owner and founder of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze.

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After losing his mother and battling depression and alcoholism, Glenn Beck took control of his life and rose to stardom. In one of our best interviews, the captivating storyteller and sometimes controversial media personality and entrepreneur shares his personal story of going through rock-bottom into what life is like for him now. He talks about why we become our best selves because of our struggles and why we have the right to failure.

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]]>After losing his mother and battling depression and alcoholism, Glenn Beck took control of his life and rose to stardom. In one of our best interviews, the captivating storyteller and sometimes controversial media personality and entrepreneur shares his personal story of going through rock-bottom into what life is like for him now. He talks about why we become our best selves because of our struggles and why we have the right to failure.

Glenn Beck is a television and radio host, political commentator, author, television network producer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and CEO, and owner and founder of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze.

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After losing his mother and battling depression and alcoholism, Glenn Beck took control of his life and rose to stardom. In one of our best interviews, the captivating storyteller and sometimes controversial media personality and entrepreneur shares his personal story of going through rock-bottom into what life is like for him now. He talks about why we become our best selves because of our struggles and why we have the right to failure.

Glenn Beck is a television and radio host, political commentator, author, television network producer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and CEO, and owner and founder of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze.

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]]>cleanNonono01:29:23sriniThe Power of Wanting Less and Staying Small with Paul Jarvishttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/power-wanting-less-staying-small-paul-jarvis/
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:00:30 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9427Peak PerformanceIn this episode, we are joined by Paul Jarvis, author of Company of One, software creator, designer and online course teacher. Paul has an understanding that growth isn’t always a good thing for businesses. He brings a message that helps lift the veil of thinking bigger is better and to understand how knowing what you want and wanting less often go hand in hand.

To find out more about Paul, his work and to listen to his podcast, visit pjrvs.com

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In this episode, we are joined by Paul Jarvis, author of Company of One, software creator, designer and online course teacher. Paul has an understanding that growth isn’t always a good thing for businesses. He brings a message that helps lift the veil of thinking bigger is better and to understand how knowing what you want and wanting less often go hand in hand.

To find out more about Paul, his work and to listen to his podcast, visit pjrvs.com

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]]>In this episode, we are joined by Paul Jarvis, author of Company of One, software creator, designer and online course teacher. Paul has an understanding that growth isn’t always a good thing for businesses. He brings a message that helps lift the veil of thinking bigger is better and to understand how knowing what you want and wanting less often go hand in hand.

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In this episode, we are joined by Paul Jarvis, author of Company of One, software creator, designer and online course teacher. Paul has an understanding that growth isn’t always a good thing for businesses. He brings a message that helps lift the veil of thinking bigger is better and to understand how knowing what you want and wanting less often go hand in hand.

To find out more about Paul, his work and to listen to his podcast, visit pjrvs.com

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]]>In this episode, we are joined by Paul Jarvis, author of Company of One, software creator, designer and online course teacher. Paul has an understanding that growth isn’t always a good thing for businesses. He brings a message that helps lift the veil of thinking bigger is better and to understand how knowing what you want and wanting less often go hand in hand.

To find out more about Paul, his work and to listen to his podcast, visit pjrvs.com

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In this episode, we are joined by Paul Jarvis, author of Company of One, software creator, designer and online course teacher. Paul has an understanding that growth isn’t always a good thing for businesses. He brings a message that helps lift the veil of thinking bigger is better and to understand how knowing what you want and wanting less often go hand in hand.

To find out more about Paul, his work and to listen to his podcast, visit pjrvs.com

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]]>cleanNonono00:55:19sriniBuilding a Business as a Tool for a Meaningful Life with Austin Netzleyhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/building-business-tool-meaningful-life-austin-netzley/
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:00:56 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9408Peak PerformanceIn this episode, we get to talk with Austin Netzley, an investor, author and entrepreneur who’s aim is to help others create a business that scales. A business that runs like a simplified, successful machine. He shares an inspiring story about how he got to where he is today and how we can build a business that can be used as a tool for a meaningful life.

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In this episode, we get to talk with Austin Netzley, an investor, author and entrepreneur who’s aim is to help others create a business that scales. A business that runs like a simplified, successful machine. He shares an inspiring story about how he got to where he is today and how we can build a business that can be used as a tool for a meaningful life.

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]]>In this episode, we get to talk with Austin Netzley, an investor, author and entrepreneur who’s aim is to help others create a business that scales. A business that runs like a simplified, successful machine. He shares an inspiring story about how he got to where he is today and how we can build a business that can be used as a tool for a meaningful life.

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In this episode, we get to talk with Austin Netzley, an investor, author and entrepreneur who’s aim is to help others create a business that scales. A business that runs like a simplified, successful machine. He shares an inspiring story about how he got to where he is today and how we can build a business that can be used as a tool for a meaningful life.

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]]>In this episode, we get to talk with Austin Netzley, an investor, author and entrepreneur who’s aim is to help others create a business that scales. A business that runs like a simplified, successful machine. He shares an inspiring story about how he got to where he is today and how we can build a business that can be used as a tool for a meaningful life.

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In this episode, we get to talk with Austin Netzley, an investor, author and entrepreneur who’s aim is to help others create a business that scales. A business that runs like a simplified, successful machine. He shares an inspiring story about how he got to where he is today and how we can build a business that can be used as a tool for a meaningful life.

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]]>cleanNonono00:48:06sriniBest of: Jedi Mind Tricks of an FBI Hostage Negotiator with Chris Vosshttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-jedi-mind-tricks-fbi-hostage-negotiator-chris-voss/
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:00:20 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9390Human BehaviorIn one of our most interesting interviews to date, Chris Voss revealed to us the power of hearing “no” in negotiations and how anyone can be a Jedi with some simple tricks of the mind when negotiating. Take a listen to what this former FBI hostage negotiator has to say about using persuasion to your advantage!

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In one of our most interesting interviews to date, Chris Voss revealed to us the power of hearing “no” in negotiations and how anyone can be a Jedi with some simple tricks of the mind when negotiating. Take a listen to what this former FBI hostage negotiator has to say about using persuasion to your advantage!

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]]>In one of our most interesting interviews to date, Chris Voss revealed to us the power of hearing “no” in negotiations and how anyone can be a Jedi with some simple tricks of the mind when negotiating. Take a listen to what this former FBI hostage negotiator has to say about using persuasion to your advantage!

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In one of our most interesting interviews to date, Chris Voss revealed to us the power of hearing “no” in negotiations and how anyone can be a Jedi with some simple tricks of the mind when negotiating. Take a listen to what this former FBI hostage negotiator has to say about using persuasion to your advantage!

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]]>In one of our most interesting interviews to date, Chris Voss revealed to us the power of hearing “no” in negotiations and how anyone can be a Jedi with some simple tricks of the mind when negotiating. Take a listen to what this former FBI hostage negotiator has to say about using persuasion to your advantage!

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

In one of our most interesting interviews to date, Chris Voss revealed to us the power of hearing “no” in negotiations and how anyone can be a Jedi with some simple tricks of the mind when negotiating. Take a listen to what this former FBI hostage negotiator has to say about using persuasion to your advantage!

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]]>cleanNonono01:07:04sriniRethinking the Way We Work with Natalie Nagelehttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rethinking-way-work-natalie-nagele/
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:00:54 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9358Human BehaviorNatalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a successful software company that started in the year 2000. Natalie has a unique outlook on the way we work and she likes to do things differently. At Wildbit, they work a 32 hour work week over 4 days. Then they take 3 days to clear their heads and reconnect with home. Natalie wants us to rethink what’s truly important in our lives and how we can honor those things in the way we work. She shares a thought-provoking message that has the power to change lives.

To find out more about Natalie Nagele and her work, simply visit wildbit.com

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Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a successful software company that started in the year 2000. Natalie has a unique outlook on the way we work and she likes to do things differently. At Wildbit, they work a 32 hour work week over 4 days. Then they take 3 days to clear their heads and reconnect with home. Natalie wants us to rethink what’s truly important in our lives and how we can honor those things in the way we work. She shares a thought-provoking message that has the power to change lives.

To find out more about Natalie Nagele and her work, simply visit wildbit.com

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]]>Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a successful software company that started in the year 2000. Natalie has a unique outlook on the way we work and she likes to do things differently. At Wildbit, they work a 32 hour work week over 4 days. Then they take 3 days to clear their heads and reconnect with home. Natalie wants us to rethink what’s truly important in our lives and how we can honor those things in the way we work. She shares a thought-provoking message that has the power to change lives.

To find out more about Natalie Nagele and her work, simply visit wildbit.com

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Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a successful software company that started in the year 2000. Natalie has a unique outlook on the way we work and she likes to do things differently. At Wildbit, they work a 32 hour work week over 4 days. Then they take 3 days to clear their heads and reconnect with home. Natalie wants us to rethink what’s truly important in our lives and how we can honor those things in the way we work. She shares a thought-provoking message that has the power to change lives.

To find out more about Natalie Nagele and her work, simply visit wildbit.com

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]]>Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a successful software company that started in the year 2000. Natalie has a unique outlook on the way we work and she likes to do things differently. At Wildbit, they work a 32 hour work week over 4 days. Then they take 3 days to clear their heads and reconnect with home. Natalie wants us to rethink what’s truly important in our lives and how we can honor those things in the way we work. She shares a thought-provoking message that has the power to change lives.

To find out more about Natalie Nagele and her work, simply visit wildbit.com

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Natalie Nagele is the co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, a successful software company that started in the year 2000. Natalie has a unique outlook on the way we work and she likes to do things differently. At Wildbit, they work a 32 hour work week over 4 days. Then they take 3 days to clear their heads and reconnect with home. Natalie wants us to rethink what’s truly important in our lives and how we can honor those things in the way we work. She shares a thought-provoking message that has the power to change lives.

To find out more about Natalie Nagele and her work, simply visit wildbit.com

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]]>cleanNonono00:50:41sriniThe Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work with Elisabeth Fosslienhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/secret-power-embracing-emotions-work-elizabeth-fosselin/
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:00:40 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9332Peak PerformanceThe workplace can feel like a pretty unemotional place sometimes. Elisabeth Fosslien is an author and speaker who’s work with Mollie West Duffy focuses on the power of embracing emotions in the workplace. In this episode, we get to discuss the ideas behind their book, No Hard Feelings. Elisabeth gives us an inspiring and in-depth look into the framework of their book, as well as what inspired this quirky and interactive guide that ultimately allows us to be the same person in and out of the workplace.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

The workplace can feel like a pretty unemotional place sometimes. Elisabeth Fosslien is an author and speaker who’s work with Mollie West Duffy focuses on the power of embracing emotions in the workplace. In this episode, we get to discuss the ideas behind their book, No Hard Feelings. Elisabeth gives us an inspiring and in-depth look into the framework of their book, as well as what inspired this quirky and interactive guide that ultimately allows us to be the same person in and out of the workplace.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

]]>The workplace can feel like a pretty unemotional place sometimes. Elisabeth Fosslien is an author and speaker who’s work with Mollie West Duffy focuses on the power of embracing emotions in the workplace. In this episode, we get to discuss the ideas behind their book, No Hard Feelings. Elisabeth gives us an inspiring and in-depth look into the framework of their book, as well as what inspired this quirky and interactive guide that ultimately allows us to be the same person in and out of the workplace.

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Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

The workplace can feel like a pretty unemotional place sometimes. Elisabeth Fosslien is an author and speaker who’s work with Mollie West Duffy focuses on the power of embracing emotions in the workplace. In this episode, we get to discuss the ideas behind their book, No Hard Feelings. Elisabeth gives us an inspiring and in-depth look into the framework of their book, as well as what inspired this quirky and interactive guide that ultimately allows us to be the same person in and out of the workplace.

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The workplace can feel like a pretty unemotional place sometimes. Elisabeth Fosslien is an author and speaker who’s work with Mollie West Duffy focuses on the power of embracing emotions in the workplace. In this episode, we get to discuss the ideas behind their book, No Hard Feelings. Elisabeth gives us an inspiring and in-depth look into the framework of their book, as well as what inspired this quirky and interactive guide that ultimately allows us to be the same person in and out of the workplace.

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The workplace can feel like a pretty unemotional place sometimes. Elisabeth Fosslien is an author and speaker who’s work with Mollie West Duffy focuses on the power of embracing emotions in the workplace. In this episode, we get to discuss the ideas behind their book, No Hard Feelings. Elisabeth gives us an inspiring and in-depth look into the framework of their book, as well as what inspired this quirky and interactive guide that ultimately allows us to be the same person in and out of the workplace.

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cleanNonono00:50:51sriniBest of: The Pillars of a Meaningful Life with Philip McKernanhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-pillars-meaningful-life-philip-mckernan/
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:00:29 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9313Well BeingPhilip McKernan speaks around the world about the importance of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining clarity, and cultivating the confidence to believe in yourself. In one of the most inspiring and poetic conversations from 2015, Philip talks about the 3 pillars of a meaningful life.

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Philip McKernan speaks around the world about the importance of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining clarity, and cultivating the confidence to believe in yourself. In one of the most inspiring and poetic conversations from 2015, Philip talks about the 3 pillars of a meaningful life.

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Philip McKernan speaks around the world about the importance of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining clarity, and cultivating the confidence to believe in yourself. In one of the most inspiring and poetic conversations from 2015, Philip talks about the 3 pillars of a meaningful life.

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Philip McKernan speaks around the world about the importance of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining clarity, and cultivating the confidence to believe in yourself. In one of the most inspiring and poetic conversations from 2015, Philip talks about the 3 pillars of a meaningful life.

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]]>cleanNonono01:13:10sriniCulture Clash, Identity, and Unlimited Potential – Part 2 With Ishita Guptahttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/culture-clash-identity-unlimited-potential-part-2-ishita-gupta/
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:00:07 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9297Inspiring,Well BeingIt’s time for Part 2 of our inspiring conversation with Ishita Gupta. Ishita helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as another 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker who works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where she gives a beautiful anecdote of her newly found friendship with David, a homeless man from New York, as well as an inspiring look into the past and present of her work and how she got to where she is today.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

It’s time for Part 2 of our inspiring conversation with Ishita Gupta. Ishita helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as another 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker who works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where she gives a beautiful anecdote of her newly found friendship with David, a homeless man from New York, as well as an inspiring look into the past and present of her work and how she got to where she is today.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

]]>It’s time for Part 2 of our inspiring conversation with Ishita Gupta. Ishita helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as another 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker who works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where she gives a beautiful anecdote of her newly found friendship with David, a homeless man from New York, as well as an inspiring look into the past and present of her work and how she got to where she is today.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

It’s time for Part 2 of our inspiring conversation with Ishita Gupta. Ishita helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as another 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker who works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where she gives a beautiful anecdote of her newly found friendship with David, a homeless man from New York, as well as an inspiring look into the past and present of her work and how she got to where she is today.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

]]>It’s time for Part 2 of our inspiring conversation with Ishita Gupta. Ishita helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as another 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker who works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where she gives a beautiful anecdote of her newly found friendship with David, a homeless man from New York, as well as an inspiring look into the past and present of her work and how she got to where she is today.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

It’s time for Part 2 of our inspiring conversation with Ishita Gupta. Ishita helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as another 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker who works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where she gives a beautiful anecdote of her newly found friendship with David, a homeless man from New York, as well as an inspiring look into the past and present of her work and how she got to where she is today.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

]]>cleanNonono00:48:47sriniCulture Clash, Identity, and Unlimited Potential – Part 1 With Ishita Guptahttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/culture-clash-identity-unlimited-potential-part-1-ishita-gupta/
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:00:05 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9281Inspiring,Well BeingIshita Gupta helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as helped publish 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker and works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, filled with wisdom and beautiful insights into building confidence and self-worth, living without fear and pursuing your dreams.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

Ishita Gupta helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as helped publish 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker and works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, filled with wisdom and beautiful insights into building confidence and self-worth, living without fear and pursuing your dreams.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

]]>Ishita Gupta helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as helped publish 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker and works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, filled with wisdom and beautiful insights into building confidence and self-worth, living without fear and pursuing your dreams.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

Ishita Gupta helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as helped publish 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker and works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, filled with wisdom and beautiful insights into building confidence and self-worth, living without fear and pursuing your dreams.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

]]>Ishita Gupta helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as helped publish 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker and works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, filled with wisdom and beautiful insights into building confidence and self-worth, living without fear and pursuing your dreams.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

Ishita Gupta helped Seth Godin publish his book Linhchpin: Are You Indispensable?, as well as helped publish 6 bestselling books at The Domino Project. She is now a writer and speaker and works with clients who are serious about living up to their potential. She joins us for this special 2 part episode of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, filled with wisdom and beautiful insights into building confidence and self-worth, living without fear and pursuing your dreams.

To find out more about Ishita Gupta and her work, visit her website at ishitagupta.com

You’ll find Ishita on most platforms as Ishita Gupta, including Instagram

]]>cleanNonono00:52:56sriniBest of: House for All Sinners and Saints with Nadia Bolz-Weberhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-house-sinners-saints-nadia-bolz-weber/
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 08:00:17 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9194InspiringIn one of our most enthralling interviews we’ve had, Nadia Bolz-Weber tells us her story about faith and the founding of the House for All Sinners and Saints. Nadia was raised fundamental Christian, and her frustrations with organized religion later in life caused her to create the kind of church that she wanted to attend. What started out as a living room congregation, eventually grew into the House for All Sinners and Saints. Take a listen to our latest episode to hear her compelling story and view on God and religion!

Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Lutheran minister who founded and is the pastor at the House for All Sinners and Saints, a mission congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado.

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In one of our most enthralling interviews we’ve had, Nadia Bolz-Weber tells us her story about faith and the founding of the House for All Sinners and Saints. Nadia was raised fundamental Christian, and her frustrations with organized religion later in life caused her to create the kind of church that she wanted to attend. What started out as a living room congregation, eventually grew into the House for All Sinners and Saints. Take a listen to our latest episode to hear her compelling story and view on God and religion!

Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Lutheran minister who founded and is the pastor at the House for All Sinners and Saints, a mission congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado.

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]]>In one of our most enthralling interviews we’ve had, Nadia Bolz-Weber tells us her story about faith and the founding of the House for All Sinners and Saints. Nadia was raised fundamental Christian, and her frustrations with organized religion later in life caused her to create the kind of church that she wanted to attend. What started out as a living room congregation, eventually grew into the House for All Sinners and Saints. Take a listen to our latest episode to hear her compelling story and view on God and religion!

Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Lutheran minister who founded and is the pastor at the House for All Sinners and Saints, a mission congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado.

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In one of our most enthralling interviews we’ve had, Nadia Bolz-Weber tells us her story about faith and the founding of the House for All Sinners and Saints. Nadia was raised fundamental Christian, and her frustrations with organized religion later in life caused her to create the kind of church that she wanted to attend. What started out as a living room congregation, eventually grew into the House for All Sinners and Saints. Take a listen to our latest episode to hear her compelling story and view on God and religion!

Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Lutheran minister who founded and is the pastor at the House for All Sinners and Saints, a mission congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado.

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]]>In one of our most enthralling interviews we’ve had, Nadia Bolz-Weber tells us her story about faith and the founding of the House for All Sinners and Saints. Nadia was raised fundamental Christian, and her frustrations with organized religion later in life caused her to create the kind of church that she wanted to attend. What started out as a living room congregation, eventually grew into the House for All Sinners and Saints. Take a listen to our latest episode to hear her compelling story and view on God and religion!

Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Lutheran minister who founded and is the pastor at the House for All Sinners and Saints, a mission congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado.

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In one of our most enthralling interviews we’ve had, Nadia Bolz-Weber tells us her story about faith and the founding of the House for All Sinners and Saints. Nadia was raised fundamental Christian, and her frustrations with organized religion later in life caused her to create the kind of church that she wanted to attend. What started out as a living room congregation, eventually grew into the House for All Sinners and Saints. Take a listen to our latest episode to hear her compelling story and view on God and religion!

Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Lutheran minister who founded and is the pastor at the House for All Sinners and Saints, a mission congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado.

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]]>cleanNonono00:52:24sriniMinimalism as The Path to a Richer Life with Allie Casazzahttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/minimalism-path-richer-life-allie-casazza/
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:00:01 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9177Well BeingFor this episode of the podcast, we are joined by blogger, author and inspirational speaker, Allie Casazza. Allie is a wife and a mother of four kids who she and her husband happily home-school. The two of them also work together on her blog-turned-business. Allie has discovered a profoundly simple and liberating outlook on motherhood. You’ll find out how she has woven minimalism into her life as well as into the way she teaches and raises her kids. The benefits pave the way to a richer life.

To find out more about Allie and her work, visit her website at alliecasazza.com

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For this episode of the podcast, we are joined by blogger, author and inspirational speaker, Allie Casazza. Allie is a wife and a mother of four kids who she and her husband happily home-school. The two of them also work together on her blog-turned-business. Allie has discovered a profoundly simple and liberating outlook on motherhood. You’ll find out how she has woven minimalism into her life as well as into the way she teaches and raises her kids. The benefits pave the way to a richer life.

To find out more about Allie and her work, visit her website at alliecasazza.com

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]]>For this episode of the podcast, we are joined by blogger, author and inspirational speaker, Allie Casazza. Allie is a wife and a mother of four kids who she and her husband happily home-school. The two of them also work together on her blog-turned-business. Allie has discovered a profoundly simple and liberating outlook on motherhood. You’ll find out how she has woven minimalism into her life as well as into the way she teaches and raises her kids. The benefits pave the way to a richer life.

To find out more about Allie and her work, visit her website at alliecasazza.com

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For this episode of the podcast, we are joined by blogger, author and inspirational speaker, Allie Casazza. Allie is a wife and a mother of four kids who she and her husband happily home-school. The two of them also work together on her blog-turned-business. Allie has discovered a profoundly simple and liberating outlook on motherhood. You’ll find out how she has woven minimalism into her life as well as into the way she teaches and raises her kids. The benefits pave the way to a richer life.

To find out more about Allie and her work, visit her website at alliecasazza.com

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]]>For this episode of the podcast, we are joined by blogger, author and inspirational speaker, Allie Casazza. Allie is a wife and a mother of four kids who she and her husband happily home-school. The two of them also work together on her blog-turned-business. Allie has discovered a profoundly simple and liberating outlook on motherhood. You’ll find out how she has woven minimalism into her life as well as into the way she teaches and raises her kids. The benefits pave the way to a richer life.

To find out more about Allie and her work, visit her website at alliecasazza.com

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For this episode of the podcast, we are joined by blogger, author and inspirational speaker, Allie Casazza. Allie is a wife and a mother of four kids who she and her husband happily home-school. The two of them also work together on her blog-turned-business. Allie has discovered a profoundly simple and liberating outlook on motherhood. You’ll find out how she has woven minimalism into her life as well as into the way she teaches and raises her kids. The benefits pave the way to a richer life.

To find out more about Allie and her work, visit her website at alliecasazza.com

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]]>cleanNonono00:54:18sriniDigital Minimalism with Cal Newporthttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/digital-minimalism-cal-newport/
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:23 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9143Well BeingThe world today is becoming dangerously digital. With the booming of social media and digital application growing in depth and complexity, keeping a healthy mindset can turn into a cluttered and stressful experience. Cal Newport, a computer science professor from Georgetown University, has some brilliant advice on how and why the philosophy of Digital Minimalism is the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.

If you’d like to find out more about about Cal Newport and his work, simply visit calnewport.com

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The world today is becoming dangerously digital. With the booming of social media and digital application growing in depth and complexity, keeping a healthy mindset can turn into a cluttered and stressful experience. Cal Newport, a computer science professor from Georgetown University, has some brilliant advice on how and why the philosophy of Digital Minimalism is the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.

If you’d like to find out more about about Cal Newport and his work, simply visit calnewport.com

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]]>The world today is becoming dangerously digital. With the booming of social media and digital application growing in depth and complexity, keeping a healthy mindset can turn into a cluttered and stressful experience. Cal Newport, a computer science professor from Georgetown University, has some brilliant advice on how and why the philosophy of Digital Minimalism is the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.

If you’d like to find out more about about Cal Newport and his work, simply visit calnewport.com

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The world today is becoming dangerously digital. With the booming of social media and digital application growing in depth and complexity, keeping a healthy mindset can turn into a cluttered and stressful experience. Cal Newport, a computer science professor from Georgetown University, has some brilliant advice on how and why the philosophy of Digital Minimalism is the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.

If you’d like to find out more about about Cal Newport and his work, simply visit calnewport.com

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]]>The world today is becoming dangerously digital. With the booming of social media and digital application growing in depth and complexity, keeping a healthy mindset can turn into a cluttered and stressful experience. Cal Newport, a computer science professor from Georgetown University, has some brilliant advice on how and why the philosophy of Digital Minimalism is the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.

If you’d like to find out more about about Cal Newport and his work, simply visit calnewport.com

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The world today is becoming dangerously digital. With the booming of social media and digital application growing in depth and complexity, keeping a healthy mindset can turn into a cluttered and stressful experience. Cal Newport, a computer science professor from Georgetown University, has some brilliant advice on how and why the philosophy of Digital Minimalism is the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.

If you’d like to find out more about about Cal Newport and his work, simply visit calnewport.com

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]]>cleanNonono00:54:05sriniBest of: The Inevitable Forces That Will Shape Our Future with Kevin Kellyhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-inevitable-forces-will-shape-future-kevin-kelly/
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 08:00:07 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9085CreativityI truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the universe, as far as we can tell, to make something because the tools for creation have never been more easily gotten, they’ve never been cheaper. They’ve never been better. They’ve never been as diverse. And they truly make things more accessible. So if you want to make something that has been made already like a book, a movie, a song, the tools do that are just about free, which means almost anybody in the world can get their hands on it. And many of these things in previous generations were prohibitively expensive and relegated to the elites. But now you can make a book that looks as good as a best-selling author can make, and you can distribute it, and it costs very little do…We are at a moment right now in terms of what’s ahead of us, that it’s a very rapidly expanding opening. We’re on the cusp of all these very transformative technologies and trends that will produce more stuff and opportunities in the next 50 years than in the past 50 years as much as that’s hard to believe. – Kevin Kelly

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I truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the universe, as far as we can tell, to make something because the tools for creation have never been more easily gotten, they’ve never been cheaper. They’ve never been better. They’ve never been as diverse. And they truly make things more accessible. So if you want to make something that has been made already like a book, a movie, a song, the tools do that are just about free, which means almost anybody in the world can get their hands on it. And many of these things in previous generations were prohibitively expensive and relegated to the elites. But now you can make a book that looks as good as a best-selling author can make, and you can distribute it, and it costs very little do…We are at a moment right now in terms of what’s ahead of us, that it’s a very rapidly expanding opening. We’re on the cusp of all these very transformative technologies and trends that will produce more stuff and opportunities in the next 50 years than in the past 50 years as much as that’s hard to believe. – Kevin Kelly

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]]>I truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the universe, as far as we can tell, to make something because the tools for creation have never been more easily gotten, they’ve never been cheaper. They’ve never been better. They’ve never been as diverse. And they truly make things more accessible. So if you want to make something that has been made already like a book, a movie, a song, the tools do that are just about free, which means almost anybody in the world can get their hands on it. And many of these things in previous generations were prohibitively expensive and relegated to the elites. But now you can make a book that looks as good as a best-selling author can make, and you can distribute it, and it costs very little do…We are at a moment right now in terms of what’s ahead of us, that it’s a very rapidly expanding opening. We’re on the cusp of all these very transformative technologies and trends that will produce more stuff and opportunities in the next 50 years than in the past 50 years as much as that’s hard to believe. – Kevin Kelly

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I truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the universe, as far as we can tell, to make something because the tools for creation have never been more easily gotten, they’ve never been cheaper. They’ve never been better. They’ve never been as diverse. And they truly make things more accessible. So if you want to make something that has been made already like a book, a movie, a song, the tools do that are just about free, which means almost anybody in the world can get their hands on it. And many of these things in previous generations were prohibitively expensive and relegated to the elites. But now you can make a book that looks as good as a best-selling author can make, and you can distribute it, and it costs very little do…We are at a moment right now in terms of what’s ahead of us, that it’s a very rapidly expanding opening. We’re on the cusp of all these very transformative technologies and trends that will produce more stuff and opportunities in the next 50 years than in the past 50 years as much as that’s hard to believe. – Kevin Kelly

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]]>I truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the universe, as far as we can tell, to make something because the tools for creation have never been more easily gotten, they’ve never been cheaper. They’ve never been better. They’ve never been as diverse. And they truly make things more accessible. So if you want to make something that has been made already like a book, a movie, a song, the tools do that are just about free, which means almost anybody in the world can get their hands on it. And many of these things in previous generations were prohibitively expensive and relegated to the elites. But now you can make a book that looks as good as a best-selling author can make, and you can distribute it, and it costs very little do…We are at a moment right now in terms of what’s ahead of us, that it’s a very rapidly expanding opening. We’re on the cusp of all these very transformative technologies and trends that will produce more stuff and opportunities in the next 50 years than in the past 50 years as much as that’s hard to believe. – Kevin Kelly

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I truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the universe, as far as we can tell, to make something because the tools for creation have never been more easily gotten, they’ve never been cheaper. They’ve never been better. They’ve never been as diverse. And they truly make things more accessible. So if you want to make something that has been made already like a book, a movie, a song, the tools do that are just about free, which means almost anybody in the world can get their hands on it. And many of these things in previous generations were prohibitively expensive and relegated to the elites. But now you can make a book that looks as good as a best-selling author can make, and you can distribute it, and it costs very little do…We are at a moment right now in terms of what’s ahead of us, that it’s a very rapidly expanding opening. We’re on the cusp of all these very transformative technologies and trends that will produce more stuff and opportunities in the next 50 years than in the past 50 years as much as that’s hard to believe. – Kevin Kelly

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]]>cleanNonono00:59:13sriniRewriting The Organizational Operating System with Aaron Dignanhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rewriting-organizational-operating-system-aaron-dignan/
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:00:10 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9063Peak PerformanceAaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready and author of the book, Brave New Work. He joins us for this episode to discuss some of the major points in his book which focuses on rewriting the system of operation within a business to be more efficient and provide a richer experience on every level. Consider that many of the workflows within our businesses are outdated and time-consuming. Well, Aaron has a method to update our operating system.

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Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready and author of the book, Brave New Work. He joins us for this episode to discuss some of the major points in his book which focuses on rewriting the system of operation within a business to be more efficient and provide a richer experience on every level. Consider that many of the workflows within our businesses are outdated and time-consuming. Well, Aaron has a method to update our operating system.

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]]>Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready and author of the book, Brave New Work. He joins us for this episode to discuss some of the major points in his book which focuses on rewriting the system of operation within a business to be more efficient and provide a richer experience on every level. Consider that many of the workflows within our businesses are outdated and time-consuming. Well, Aaron has a method to update our operating system.

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Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready and author of the book, Brave New Work. He joins us for this episode to discuss some of the major points in his book which focuses on rewriting the system of operation within a business to be more efficient and provide a richer experience on every level. Consider that many of the workflows within our businesses are outdated and time-consuming. Well, Aaron has a method to update our operating system.

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]]>Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready and author of the book, Brave New Work. He joins us for this episode to discuss some of the major points in his book which focuses on rewriting the system of operation within a business to be more efficient and provide a richer experience on every level. Consider that many of the workflows within our businesses are outdated and time-consuming. Well, Aaron has a method to update our operating system.

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Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready and author of the book, Brave New Work. He joins us for this episode to discuss some of the major points in his book which focuses on rewriting the system of operation within a business to be more efficient and provide a richer experience on every level. Consider that many of the workflows within our businesses are outdated and time-consuming. Well, Aaron has a method to update our operating system.

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]]>cleanNonono01:02:46sriniThe Man Who Walked Away From a Fortune with Daniel Levinhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/man-walked-away-fortune-daniel-levin/
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:00:21 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9016InspiringFor this episode of the podcast, Daniel Levin, Connectivity Expert and Author, shares a captivating recount of the life-changing events that lead him to go on to write the book, The Mosaic, and become the person he is today. Throughout this discussion, Daniel talks about losing both his parents at a young age, choosing to walk away from H&R Block when he was 16, as well as discovering the true power of connection, and much, much more.

For this episode of the podcast, Daniel Levin, Connectivity Expert and Author, shares a captivating recount of the life-changing events that lead him to go on to write the book, The Mosaic, and become the person he is today. Throughout this discussion, Daniel talks about losing both his parents at a young age, choosing to walk away from H&R Block when he was 16, as well as discovering the true power of connection, and much, much more.

]]>For this episode of the podcast, Daniel Levin, Connectivity Expert and Author, shares a captivating recount of the life-changing events that lead him to go on to write the book, The Mosaic, and become the person he is today. Throughout this discussion, Daniel talks about losing both his parents at a young age, choosing to walk away from H&R Block when he was 16, as well as discovering the true power of connection, and much, much more.

For this episode of the podcast, Daniel Levin, Connectivity Expert and Author, shares a captivating recount of the life-changing events that lead him to go on to write the book, The Mosaic, and become the person he is today. Throughout this discussion, Daniel talks about losing both his parents at a young age, choosing to walk away from H&R Block when he was 16, as well as discovering the true power of connection, and much, much more.

]]>For this episode of the podcast, Daniel Levin, Connectivity Expert and Author, shares a captivating recount of the life-changing events that lead him to go on to write the book, The Mosaic, and become the person he is today. Throughout this discussion, Daniel talks about losing both his parents at a young age, choosing to walk away from H&R Block when he was 16, as well as discovering the true power of connection, and much, much more.

For this episode of the podcast, Daniel Levin, Connectivity Expert and Author, shares a captivating recount of the life-changing events that lead him to go on to write the book, The Mosaic, and become the person he is today. Throughout this discussion, Daniel talks about losing both his parents at a young age, choosing to walk away from H&R Block when he was 16, as well as discovering the true power of connection, and much, much more.

]]>cleanNonono00:53:38sriniBest of: What Improv Can Teach Us About Creation, Collaboration, and Communication with Tom Yortonhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-improv-can-teach-us-creation-collaboration-communication-tom-yorton/
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:00:55 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8981CreativityIn this episode of the podcast, Tom Yorton, CEO of SecondCity Works, Chicago’s world renown improv theater whose alumni include Steven Colbert, Tina Fey and many other high profile comedians, talks about what the world of improv can teach us about creation, communication and collaboration.

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In this episode of the podcast, Tom Yorton, CEO of SecondCity Works, Chicago’s world renown improv theater whose alumni include Steven Colbert, Tina Fey and many other high profile comedians, talks about what the world of improv can teach us about creation, communication and collaboration.

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]]>In this episode of the podcast, Tom Yorton, CEO of SecondCity Works, Chicago’s world renown improv theater whose alumni include Steven Colbert, Tina Fey and many other high profile comedians, talks about what the world of improv can teach us about creation, communication and collaboration.

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In this episode of the podcast, Tom Yorton, CEO of SecondCity Works, Chicago’s world renown improv theater whose alumni include Steven Colbert, Tina Fey and many other high profile comedians, talks about what the world of improv can teach us about creation, communication and collaboration.

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]]>In this episode of the podcast, Tom Yorton, CEO of SecondCity Works, Chicago’s world renown improv theater whose alumni include Steven Colbert, Tina Fey and many other high profile comedians, talks about what the world of improv can teach us about creation, communication and collaboration.

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In this episode of the podcast, Tom Yorton, CEO of SecondCity Works, Chicago’s world renown improv theater whose alumni include Steven Colbert, Tina Fey and many other high profile comedians, talks about what the world of improv can teach us about creation, communication and collaboration.

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]]>cleanNonono00:51:42sriniTransforming What’s Possible in Our Lives Through Social Design with Cheryl Hellerhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/transforming-whats-possible-lives-social-design-cheryl-heller/
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:00:02 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8954Peak PerformanceCheryl Heller is a business strategist, designer and author of The Intergalactic Design Guide. She joins us in this episode for an inspiring, jam-packed discussion, focused on how we can transform the limits in our lives through social design and creativity. In light of achieving the impossible, Cheryl covers many inspiring and interesting topics such us how to define your sense of identity, how to apply the principles of communication design, why we should rely on experiments more than planning, and ultimately, how we can alter what we see as possible on our own lives.

Cheryl Helleris the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA. To view and apply to the DSI program, simply visit https://dsi.sva.edu

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Cheryl Heller is a business strategist, designer and author of The Intergalactic Design Guide. She joins us in this episode for an inspiring, jam-packed discussion, focused on how we can transform the limits in our lives through social design and creativity. In light of achieving the impossible, Cheryl covers many inspiring and interesting topics such us how to define your sense of identity, how to apply the principles of communication design, why we should rely on experiments more than planning, and ultimately, how we can alter what we see as possible on our own lives.

Cheryl Helleris the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA. To view and apply to the DSI program, simply visit https://dsi.sva.edu

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]]>Cheryl Heller is a business strategist, designer and author of The Intergalactic Design Guide. She joins us in this episode for an inspiring, jam-packed discussion, focused on how we can transform the limits in our lives through social design and creativity. In light of achieving the impossible, Cheryl covers many inspiring and interesting topics such us how to define your sense of identity, how to apply the principles of communication design, why we should rely on experiments more than planning, and ultimately, how we can alter what we see as possible on our own lives.

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Cheryl Heller is a business strategist, designer and author of The Intergalactic Design Guide. She joins us in this episode for an inspiring, jam-packed discussion, focused on how we can transform the limits in our lives through social design and creativity. In light of achieving the impossible, Cheryl covers many inspiring and interesting topics such us how to define your sense of identity, how to apply the principles of communication design, why we should rely on experiments more than planning, and ultimately, how we can alter what we see as possible on our own lives.

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Cheryl Heller is a business strategist, designer and author of The Intergalactic Design Guide. She joins us in this episode for an inspiring, jam-packed discussion, focused on how we can transform the limits in our lives through social design and creativity. In light of achieving the impossible, Cheryl covers many inspiring and interesting topics such us how to define your sense of identity, how to apply the principles of communication design, why we should rely on experiments more than planning, and ultimately, how we can alter what we see as possible on our own lives.

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Cheryl Heller is a business strategist, designer and author of The Intergalactic Design Guide. She joins us in this episode for an inspiring, jam-packed discussion, focused on how we can transform the limits in our lives through social design and creativity. In light of achieving the impossible, Cheryl covers many inspiring and interesting topics such us how to define your sense of identity, how to apply the principles of communication design, why we should rely on experiments more than planning, and ultimately, how we can alter what we see as possible on our own lives.

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cleanNonono00:55:19sriniThe Universal Language of Music with David Johnsonhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/universal-language-music-david-johnson/
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:22:10 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8934InspiringFor this episode, we are joined by David Johnson, a renowned music producer and writer who has grown up around the likes of Miles Davis and Buddy Rich, and performed alongside artists such as Bruce Springsteen. Needless to say, David has experienced his fair share of the music industry. You’ll find out what its like to be 18 and touring the world, building honest friendships, or even losing your home and music studio to 25 inches of water, twice! Our discussion is that of a wholesome journey with honest, good-hearted lessons learned a long the way. Moreover, David gives an inspiring lesson on the universal language of music.

David Johnson is currently working on a documentary called Patch.CV that focuses on the growing movement of modular synthesis which you can find on www.patchcv.com

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For this episode, we are joined by David Johnson, a renowned music producer and writer who has grown up around the likes of Miles Davis and Buddy Rich, and performed alongside artists such as Bruce Springsteen. Needless to say, David has experienced his fair share of the music industry. You’ll find out what its like to be 18 and touring the world, building honest friendships, or even losing your home and music studio to 25 inches of water, twice! Our discussion is that of a wholesome journey with honest, good-hearted lessons learned a long the way. Moreover, David gives an inspiring lesson on the universal language of music.

David Johnson is currently working on a documentary called Patch.CV that focuses on the growing movement of modular synthesis which you can find on www.patchcv.com

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]]>For this episode, we are joined by David Johnson, a renowned music producer and writer who has grown up around the likes of Miles Davis and Buddy Rich, and performed alongside artists such as Bruce Springsteen. Needless to say, David has experienced his fair share of the music industry. You’ll find out what its like to be 18 and touring the world, building honest friendships, or even losing your home and music studio to 25 inches of water, twice! Our discussion is that of a wholesome journey with honest, good-hearted lessons learned a long the way. Moreover, David gives an inspiring lesson on the universal language of music.

David Johnson is currently working on a documentary called Patch.CV that focuses on the growing movement of modular synthesis which you can find on www.patchcv.com

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For this episode, we are joined by David Johnson, a renowned music producer and writer who has grown up around the likes of Miles Davis and Buddy Rich, and performed alongside artists such as Bruce Springsteen. Needless to say, David has experienced his fair share of the music industry. You’ll find out what its like to be 18 and touring the world, building honest friendships, or even losing your home and music studio to 25 inches of water, twice! Our discussion is that of a wholesome journey with honest, good-hearted lessons learned a long the way. Moreover, David gives an inspiring lesson on the universal language of music.

David Johnson is currently working on a documentary called Patch.CV that focuses on the growing movement of modular synthesis which you can find on www.patchcv.com

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For this episode, we are joined by David Johnson, a renowned music producer and writer who has grown up around the likes of Miles Davis and Buddy Rich, and performed alongside artists such as Bruce Springsteen. Needless to say, David has experienced his fair share of the music industry. You’ll find out what its like to be 18 and touring the world, building honest friendships, or even losing your home and music studio to 25 inches of water, twice! Our discussion is that of a wholesome journey with honest, good-hearted lessons learned a long the way. Moreover, David gives an inspiring lesson on the universal language of music.

David Johnson is currently working on a documentary called Patch.CV that focuses on the growing movement of modular synthesis which you can find on www.patchcv.com

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For this episode, we are joined by David Johnson, a renowned music producer and writer who has grown up around the likes of Miles Davis and Buddy Rich, and performed alongside artists such as Bruce Springsteen. Needless to say, David has experienced his fair share of the music industry. You’ll find out what its like to be 18 and touring the world, building honest friendships, or even losing your home and music studio to 25 inches of water, twice! Our discussion is that of a wholesome journey with honest, good-hearted lessons learned a long the way. Moreover, David gives an inspiring lesson on the universal language of music.

David Johnson is currently working on a documentary called Patch.CV that focuses on the growing movement of modular synthesis which you can find on www.patchcv.com

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cleanNonono01:06:52sriniBest of: The Science of Succeeding with People with Vanessa Van Edwardshttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/science-succeeding-people-vanessa-van-edwards/
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:00:24 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8888Inspiring“We like winners. We like to be around winners. We like to work with winners. We like to be friends with winners. That is because we know unconsciously that could activate our feedback loop to win. University of British Columbia did a research study on athletes. They studied athletes around the world. They also studied athletes who’d been blind since birth. They found that across races and genders athletes have the exact same body language when they win or lose a race. Pride body language very specifically is when people take up as much space as possible. They tilt their head up towards the sky. They open their arms wide. They’ll jump up into the air or firmly plant their feet. It’s as if they’re saying “I feel good in the world so I want to take up more space in it.” Whereas defeated athletes, this is the body language of losing and shame, is when they take up as little space as possible. They roll their shoulders in. They tilt their heads towards their chest. They usually will grip their hands in a fist or clenched fashion. They even will stand or sit in fetal position. This is the universal gesture of shame. What happens is when we first see someone, in that first few seconds, we’re very quickly trying to decided “who do you look more like a winner or a loser?” We can pick up how prideful someone feels based on how much space they’re taking up and how much movement they have”- Vanessa Van Edwards

Vanessa Van Edwards is a published author and behavioral investigator. She is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting human behavior for audiences around the world. She’s also the author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

“We like winners. We like to be around winners. We like to work with winners. We like to be friends with winners. That is because we know unconsciously that could activate our feedback loop to win. University of British Columbia did a research study on athletes. They studied athletes around the world. They also studied athletes who’d been blind since birth. They found that across races and genders athletes have the exact same body language when they win or lose a race. Pride body language very specifically is when people take up as much space as possible. They tilt their head up towards the sky. They open their arms wide. They’ll jump up into the air or firmly plant their feet. It’s as if they’re saying “I feel good in the world so I want to take up more space in it.” Whereas defeated athletes, this is the body language of losing and shame, is when they take up as little space as possible. They roll their shoulders in. They tilt their heads towards their chest. They usually will grip their hands in a fist or clenched fashion. They even will stand or sit in fetal position. This is the universal gesture of shame. What happens is when we first see someone, in that first few seconds, we’re very quickly trying to decided “who do you look more like a winner or a loser?” We can pick up how prideful someone feels based on how much space they’re taking up and how much movement they have”- Vanessa Van Edwards

Vanessa Van Edwards is a published author and behavioral investigator. She is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting human behavior for audiences around the world. She’s also the author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

]]>“We like winners. We like to be around winners. We like to work with winners. We like to be friends with winners. That is because we know unconsciously that could activate our feedback loop to win. University of British Columbia did a research study on athletes. They studied athletes around the world. They also studied athletes who’d been blind since birth. They found that across races and genders athletes have the exact same body language when they win or lose a race. Pride body language very specifically is when people take up as much space as possible. They tilt their head up towards the sky. They open their arms wide. They’ll jump up into the air or firmly plant their feet. It’s as if they’re saying “I feel good in the world so I want to take up more space in it.” Whereas defeated athletes, this is the body language of losing and shame, is when they take up as little space as possible. They roll their shoulders in. They tilt their heads towards their chest. They usually will grip their hands in a fist or clenched fashion. They even will stand or sit in fetal position. This is the universal gesture of shame. What happens is when we first see someone, in that first few seconds, we’re very quickly trying to decided “who do you look more like a winner or a loser?” We can pick up how prideful someone feels based on how much space they’re taking up and how much movement they have”- Vanessa Van Edwards

Vanessa Van Edwards is a published author and behavioral investigator. She is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting human behavior for audiences around the world. She’s also the author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

“We like winners. We like to be around winners. We like to work with winners. We like to be friends with winners. That is because we know unconsciously that could activate our feedback loop to win. University of British Columbia did a research study on athletes. They studied athletes around the world. They also studied athletes who’d been blind since birth. They found that across races and genders athletes have the exact same body language when they win or lose a race. Pride body language very specifically is when people take up as much space as possible. They tilt their head up towards the sky. They open their arms wide. They’ll jump up into the air or firmly plant their feet. It’s as if they’re saying “I feel good in the world so I want to take up more space in it.” Whereas defeated athletes, this is the body language of losing and shame, is when they take up as little space as possible. They roll their shoulders in. They tilt their heads towards their chest. They usually will grip their hands in a fist or clenched fashion. They even will stand or sit in fetal position. This is the universal gesture of shame. What happens is when we first see someone, in that first few seconds, we’re very quickly trying to decided “who do you look more like a winner or a loser?” We can pick up how prideful someone feels based on how much space they’re taking up and how much movement they have”- Vanessa Van Edwards

Vanessa Van Edwards is a published author and behavioral investigator. She is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting human behavior for audiences around the world. She’s also the author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

]]>“We like winners. We like to be around winners. We like to work with winners. We like to be friends with winners. That is because we know unconsciously that could activate our feedback loop to win. University of British Columbia did a research study on athletes. They studied athletes around the world. They also studied athletes who’d been blind since birth. They found that across races and genders athletes have the exact same body language when they win or lose a race. Pride body language very specifically is when people take up as much space as possible. They tilt their head up towards the sky. They open their arms wide. They’ll jump up into the air or firmly plant their feet. It’s as if they’re saying “I feel good in the world so I want to take up more space in it.” Whereas defeated athletes, this is the body language of losing and shame, is when they take up as little space as possible. They roll their shoulders in. They tilt their heads towards their chest. They usually will grip their hands in a fist or clenched fashion. They even will stand or sit in fetal position. This is the universal gesture of shame. What happens is when we first see someone, in that first few seconds, we’re very quickly trying to decided “who do you look more like a winner or a loser?” We can pick up how prideful someone feels based on how much space they’re taking up and how much movement they have”- Vanessa Van Edwards

Vanessa Van Edwards is a published author and behavioral investigator. She is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting human behavior for audiences around the world. She’s also the author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

“We like winners. We like to be around winners. We like to work with winners. We like to be friends with winners. That is because we know unconsciously that could activate our feedback loop to win. University of British Columbia did a research study on athletes. They studied athletes around the world. They also studied athletes who’d been blind since birth. They found that across races and genders athletes have the exact same body language when they win or lose a race. Pride body language very specifically is when people take up as much space as possible. They tilt their head up towards the sky. They open their arms wide. They’ll jump up into the air or firmly plant their feet. It’s as if they’re saying “I feel good in the world so I want to take up more space in it.” Whereas defeated athletes, this is the body language of losing and shame, is when they take up as little space as possible. They roll their shoulders in. They tilt their heads towards their chest. They usually will grip their hands in a fist or clenched fashion. They even will stand or sit in fetal position. This is the universal gesture of shame. What happens is when we first see someone, in that first few seconds, we’re very quickly trying to decided “who do you look more like a winner or a loser?” We can pick up how prideful someone feels based on how much space they’re taking up and how much movement they have”- Vanessa Van Edwards

Vanessa Van Edwards is a published author and behavioral investigator. She is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting human behavior for audiences around the world. She’s also the author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

]]>cleanNonono00:56:30sriniWhy We’ve Become So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us with Will Storrhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/weve-become-self-obsessed-us-will-storr/
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 08:10:16 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8838InspiringWill Storr, an award-winning journalist and novelist, joins us for this episode of The Unmistakable Creative. In this discussion, Will takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of self. He paints an intriguing picture of how early human societies and the modern-day western world are hugely connected. Why have we become so self-obsessed and what is it doing to us? The irony is that we’d love to know and Will has an answer that will blow your mind.

Will Storr, an award-winning journalist and novelist, joins us for this episode of The Unmistakable Creative. In this discussion, Will takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of self. He paints an intriguing picture of how early human societies and the modern-day western world are hugely connected. Why have we become so self-obsessed and what is it doing to us? The irony is that we’d love to know and Will has an answer that will blow your mind.

]]>Will Storr, an award-winning journalist and novelist, joins us for this episode of The Unmistakable Creative. In this discussion, Will takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of self. He paints an intriguing picture of how early human societies and the modern-day western world are hugely connected. Why have we become so self-obsessed and what is it doing to us? The irony is that we’d love to know and Will has an answer that will blow your mind.

Will Storr, an award-winning journalist and novelist, joins us for this episode of The Unmistakable Creative. In this discussion, Will takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of self. He paints an intriguing picture of how early human societies and the modern-day western world are hugely connected. Why have we become so self-obsessed and what is it doing to us? The irony is that we’d love to know and Will has an answer that will blow your mind.

]]>Will Storr, an award-winning journalist and novelist, joins us for this episode of The Unmistakable Creative. In this discussion, Will takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of self. He paints an intriguing picture of how early human societies and the modern-day western world are hugely connected. Why have we become so self-obsessed and what is it doing to us? The irony is that we’d love to know and Will has an answer that will blow your mind.

Will Storr, an award-winning journalist and novelist, joins us for this episode of The Unmistakable Creative. In this discussion, Will takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of self. He paints an intriguing picture of how early human societies and the modern-day western world are hugely connected. Why have we become so self-obsessed and what is it doing to us? The irony is that we’d love to know and Will has an answer that will blow your mind.

]]>cleanNonono01:03:17sriniFinding the Courage to Speak Your Truth with Philip McKernanhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/finding-courage-speak-truth-philip-mckernan/
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:00:21 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8701InspiringPhilip McKernan returns to the show for yet another awe-inspiring discussion. In this episode, Philip talks about taking ownership of your struggles and of your suffering, what it means to speak your truth and how that frees you up to be the person you are destined to be, which ultimately allows us to love and be loved by others. Philip also shares how he went about writing a book with dyslexia, some of his insight into using our gifts to make an impact and much more.

Philip McKernan is a speaker, film-maker, coach as well as author of his latest book One Last Talk

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Philip McKernan returns to the show for yet another awe-inspiring discussion. In this episode, Philip talks about taking ownership of your struggles and of your suffering, what it means to speak your truth and how that frees you up to be the person you are destined to be, which ultimately allows us to love and be loved by others. Philip also shares how he went about writing a book with dyslexia, some of his insight into using our gifts to make an impact and much more.

Philip McKernan is a speaker, film-maker, coach as well as author of his latest book One Last Talk

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]]>Philip McKernan returns to the show for yet another awe-inspiring discussion. In this episode, Philip talks about taking ownership of your struggles and of your suffering, what it means to speak your truth and how that frees you up to be the person you are destined to be, which ultimately allows us to love and be loved by others. Philip also shares how he went about writing a book with dyslexia, some of his insight into using our gifts to make an impact and much more.

Philip McKernan is a speaker, film-maker, coach as well as author of his latest book One Last Talk

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Philip McKernan returns to the show for yet another awe-inspiring discussion. In this episode, Philip talks about taking ownership of your struggles and of your suffering, what it means to speak your truth and how that frees you up to be the person you are destined to be, which ultimately allows us to love and be loved by others. Philip also shares how he went about writing a book with dyslexia, some of his insight into using our gifts to make an impact and much more.

Philip McKernan is a speaker, film-maker, coach as well as author of his latest book One Last Talk

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

]]>Philip McKernan returns to the show for yet another awe-inspiring discussion. In this episode, Philip talks about taking ownership of your struggles and of your suffering, what it means to speak your truth and how that frees you up to be the person you are destined to be, which ultimately allows us to love and be loved by others. Philip also shares how he went about writing a book with dyslexia, some of his insight into using our gifts to make an impact and much more.

Philip McKernan is a speaker, film-maker, coach as well as author of his latest book One Last Talk

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

Philip McKernan returns to the show for yet another awe-inspiring discussion. In this episode, Philip talks about taking ownership of your struggles and of your suffering, what it means to speak your truth and how that frees you up to be the person you are destined to be, which ultimately allows us to love and be loved by others. Philip also shares how he went about writing a book with dyslexia, some of his insight into using our gifts to make an impact and much more.

Philip McKernan is a speaker, film-maker, coach as well as author of his latest book One Last Talk

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]]>cleanNonono00:55:40sriniBest of: Born to Be An Artist with James Victorehttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-born-artist-james-victore/
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 08:00:32 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8416InspiringIn this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, artist and designer James Victore shares his personal journey, what’s required to succeed in a creative career, and uncovering the defining ethos of our lives.

James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination. He is an author, designer, filmmaker and firestarter. James has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the globe. He is the host of Burning Questions.. He also hosts a dinner series that consists of four days and nights that are chock-full of creation, communion, deep thought, and play. It’s an intense and intimate mastery program for conscious creatives who are ready to see and be seen.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, artist and designer James Victore shares his personal journey, what’s required to succeed in a creative career, and uncovering the defining ethos of our lives.

James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination. He is an author, designer, filmmaker and firestarter. James has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the globe. He is the host of Burning Questions.. He also hosts a dinner series that consists of four days and nights that are chock-full of creation, communion, deep thought, and play. It’s an intense and intimate mastery program for conscious creatives who are ready to see and be seen.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

]]>In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, artist and designer James Victore shares his personal journey, what’s required to succeed in a creative career, and uncovering the defining ethos of our lives.

James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination. He is an author, designer, filmmaker and firestarter. James has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the globe. He is the host of Burning Questions.. He also hosts a dinner series that consists of four days and nights that are chock-full of creation, communion, deep thought, and play. It’s an intense and intimate mastery program for conscious creatives who are ready to see and be seen.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, artist and designer James Victore shares his personal journey, what’s required to succeed in a creative career, and uncovering the defining ethos of our lives.

James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination. He is an author, designer, filmmaker and firestarter. James has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the globe. He is the host of Burning Questions.. He also hosts a dinner series that consists of four days and nights that are chock-full of creation, communion, deep thought, and play. It’s an intense and intimate mastery program for conscious creatives who are ready to see and be seen.

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]]>In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, artist and designer James Victore shares his personal journey, what’s required to succeed in a creative career, and uncovering the defining ethos of our lives.

James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination. He is an author, designer, filmmaker and firestarter. James has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the globe. He is the host of Burning Questions.. He also hosts a dinner series that consists of four days and nights that are chock-full of creation, communion, deep thought, and play. It’s an intense and intimate mastery program for conscious creatives who are ready to see and be seen.

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In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, artist and designer James Victore shares his personal journey, what’s required to succeed in a creative career, and uncovering the defining ethos of our lives.

James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination. He is an author, designer, filmmaker and firestarter. James has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the globe. He is the host of Burning Questions.. He also hosts a dinner series that consists of four days and nights that are chock-full of creation, communion, deep thought, and play. It’s an intense and intimate mastery program for conscious creatives who are ready to see and be seen.

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]]>cleanNonono01:03:40sriniTrack Your Past, Order Your Present, and Plan Your Future with Ryder Carrollhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/track-past-order-present-plan-future-ryder-caroll/
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:00:11 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8372InspiringRyder Carroll is a digital product designer, inventor of the Bullet Journal and author of his latest book, The Bullet Journal Method, which focuses on the art of intentional living. He joins us in this episode to share some valuable insights into his early career, experiences that helped shape him and lead him to where he is today, as well as what inspired him to create the Bullet Journal. Not only this but Ryder also gives us a first-hand look into his long awaited book: The Bullet Journal Method.

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Ryder Carroll is a digital product designer, inventor of the Bullet Journal and author of his latest book, The Bullet Journal Method, which focuses on the art of intentional living. He joins us in this episode to share some valuable insights into his early career, experiences that helped shape him and lead him to where he is today, as well as what inspired him to create the Bullet Journal. Not only this but Ryder also gives us a first-hand look into his long awaited book: The Bullet Journal Method.

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]]>Ryder Carroll is a digital product designer, inventor of the Bullet Journal and author of his latest book, The Bullet Journal Method, which focuses on the art of intentional living. He joins us in this episode to share some valuable insights into his early career, experiences that helped shape him and lead him to where he is today, as well as what inspired him to create the Bullet Journal. Not only this but Ryder also gives us a first-hand look into his long awaited book: The Bullet Journal Method.

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Ryder Carroll is a digital product designer, inventor of the Bullet Journal and author of his latest book, The Bullet Journal Method, which focuses on the art of intentional living. He joins us in this episode to share some valuable insights into his early career, experiences that helped shape him and lead him to where he is today, as well as what inspired him to create the Bullet Journal. Not only this but Ryder also gives us a first-hand look into his long awaited book: The Bullet Journal Method.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

]]>Ryder Carroll is a digital product designer, inventor of the Bullet Journal and author of his latest book, The Bullet Journal Method, which focuses on the art of intentional living. He joins us in this episode to share some valuable insights into his early career, experiences that helped shape him and lead him to where he is today, as well as what inspired him to create the Bullet Journal. Not only this but Ryder also gives us a first-hand look into his long awaited book: The Bullet Journal Method.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

Ryder Carroll is a digital product designer, inventor of the Bullet Journal and author of his latest book, The Bullet Journal Method, which focuses on the art of intentional living. He joins us in this episode to share some valuable insights into his early career, experiences that helped shape him and lead him to where he is today, as well as what inspired him to create the Bullet Journal. Not only this but Ryder also gives us a first-hand look into his long awaited book: The Bullet Journal Method.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

]]>cleanNonono00:57:53sriniBest of: An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake with Srini Raohttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-audience-one-reclaiming-creativity-sake-srini-rao/
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 07:00:17 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8312InspiringSrini Rao, creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, is the guest rather than the host for this episode! He discusses his latest book, Audience of One, and details why it’s important to pursue creative ventures for their own sake rather than only doing things so you can put them on a resume. He also discusses the importance of flow, mastering distraction, and much more.

Srini Rao is the creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast. He’s the author of several books, including his newest book,An Audience of One.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Srini Rao, creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, is the guest rather than the host for this episode! He discusses his latest book, Audience of One, and details why it’s important to pursue creative ventures for their own sake rather than only doing things so you can put them on a resume. He also discusses the importance of flow, mastering distraction, and much more.

Srini Rao is the creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast. He’s the author of several books, including his newest book,An Audience of One.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>Srini Rao, creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, is the guest rather than the host for this episode! He discusses his latest book, Audience of One, and details why it’s important to pursue creative ventures for their own sake rather than only doing things so you can put them on a resume. He also discusses the importance of flow, mastering distraction, and much more.

Srini Rao is the creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast. He’s the author of several books, including his newest book,An Audience of One.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Srini Rao, creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, is the guest rather than the host for this episode! He discusses his latest book, Audience of One, and details why it’s important to pursue creative ventures for their own sake rather than only doing things so you can put them on a resume. He also discusses the importance of flow, mastering distraction, and much more.

Srini Rao is the creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast. He’s the author of several books, including his newest book,An Audience of One.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>Srini Rao, creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, is the guest rather than the host for this episode! He discusses his latest book, Audience of One, and details why it’s important to pursue creative ventures for their own sake rather than only doing things so you can put them on a resume. He also discusses the importance of flow, mastering distraction, and much more.

Srini Rao is the creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast. He’s the author of several books, including his newest book,An Audience of One.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Srini Rao, creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, is the guest rather than the host for this episode! He discusses his latest book, Audience of One, and details why it’s important to pursue creative ventures for their own sake rather than only doing things so you can put them on a resume. He also discusses the importance of flow, mastering distraction, and much more.

Srini Rao is the creator and host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast. He’s the author of several books, including his newest book,An Audience of One.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>cleanNonono01:35:51sriniBest of: The Neuroscience of Goals with Srini Pillayhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-neuroscience-goals-srini-pillay/
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 07:00:55 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8311InspiringHave you ever wondered how your brain functions when setting goals? How does it differentiate between the basic, more primal goals and the more complex goals we as humans can create? Srini Pillay is an expert in the “head and heart” approach to personal development, and he knows all about how the brain works and the tricks you can do to help set more attainable goals.

Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Have you ever wondered how your brain functions when setting goals? How does it differentiate between the basic, more primal goals and the more complex goals we as humans can create? Srini Pillay is an expert in the “head and heart” approach to personal development, and he knows all about how the brain works and the tricks you can do to help set more attainable goals.

Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>Have you ever wondered how your brain functions when setting goals? How does it differentiate between the basic, more primal goals and the more complex goals we as humans can create? Srini Pillay is an expert in the “head and heart” approach to personal development, and he knows all about how the brain works and the tricks you can do to help set more attainable goals.

Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Have you ever wondered how your brain functions when setting goals? How does it differentiate between the basic, more primal goals and the more complex goals we as humans can create? Srini Pillay is an expert in the “head and heart” approach to personal development, and he knows all about how the brain works and the tricks you can do to help set more attainable goals.

Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>Have you ever wondered how your brain functions when setting goals? How does it differentiate between the basic, more primal goals and the more complex goals we as humans can create? Srini Pillay is an expert in the “head and heart” approach to personal development, and he knows all about how the brain works and the tricks you can do to help set more attainable goals.

Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Have you ever wondered how your brain functions when setting goals? How does it differentiate between the basic, more primal goals and the more complex goals we as humans can create? Srini Pillay is an expert in the “head and heart” approach to personal development, and he knows all about how the brain works and the tricks you can do to help set more attainable goals.

Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>cleanNonono00:53:10sriniBest of: Challenging the Cultural Narratives of Motherhood and Addiction with Janelle Hanchetthttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-challenging-cultural-narratives-motherhood-addiction-janelle-hanchett/
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:00:33 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8279InspiringJanelle Hanchett wasn’t sure if she was crazy or the rest of the world was when she became a mother. She saw all the ideals and characters of “motherhood” and realized she didn’t fit hardy any of them. So she began her blog, Renegade Mothering, to see if others felt that same way. She attempts to break down the cultural narratives of what being a mother truly is, and she discusses her addictive past as well.

Janelle Hanchett created the blog Renegade Mothering in 2011 to determine if the rest of the mothering world was crazy or she was. She invited readers to join her in “the fight against helpful parenting advice” and wrote candidly about the darker sides of motherhood, including her own recovery from alcoholism. She’s the author of I’m Just Happy to Be Here as well.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Janelle Hanchett wasn’t sure if she was crazy or the rest of the world was when she became a mother. She saw all the ideals and characters of “motherhood” and realized she didn’t fit hardy any of them. So she began her blog, Renegade Mothering, to see if others felt that same way. She attempts to break down the cultural narratives of what being a mother truly is, and she discusses her addictive past as well.

Janelle Hanchett created the blog Renegade Mothering in 2011 to determine if the rest of the mothering world was crazy or she was. She invited readers to join her in “the fight against helpful parenting advice” and wrote candidly about the darker sides of motherhood, including her own recovery from alcoholism. She’s the author of I’m Just Happy to Be Here as well.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>Janelle Hanchett wasn’t sure if she was crazy or the rest of the world was when she became a mother. She saw all the ideals and characters of “motherhood” and realized she didn’t fit hardy any of them. So she began her blog, Renegade Mothering, to see if others felt that same way. She attempts to break down the cultural narratives of what being a mother truly is, and she discusses her addictive past as well.

Janelle Hanchett created the blog Renegade Mothering in 2011 to determine if the rest of the mothering world was crazy or she was. She invited readers to join her in “the fight against helpful parenting advice” and wrote candidly about the darker sides of motherhood, including her own recovery from alcoholism. She’s the author of I’m Just Happy to Be Here as well.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Janelle Hanchett wasn’t sure if she was crazy or the rest of the world was when she became a mother. She saw all the ideals and characters of “motherhood” and realized she didn’t fit hardy any of them. So she began her blog, Renegade Mothering, to see if others felt that same way. She attempts to break down the cultural narratives of what being a mother truly is, and she discusses her addictive past as well.

Janelle Hanchett created the blog Renegade Mothering in 2011 to determine if the rest of the mothering world was crazy or she was. She invited readers to join her in “the fight against helpful parenting advice” and wrote candidly about the darker sides of motherhood, including her own recovery from alcoholism. She’s the author of I’m Just Happy to Be Here as well.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>Janelle Hanchett wasn’t sure if she was crazy or the rest of the world was when she became a mother. She saw all the ideals and characters of “motherhood” and realized she didn’t fit hardy any of them. So she began her blog, Renegade Mothering, to see if others felt that same way. She attempts to break down the cultural narratives of what being a mother truly is, and she discusses her addictive past as well.

Janelle Hanchett created the blog Renegade Mothering in 2011 to determine if the rest of the mothering world was crazy or she was. She invited readers to join her in “the fight against helpful parenting advice” and wrote candidly about the darker sides of motherhood, including her own recovery from alcoholism. She’s the author of I’m Just Happy to Be Here as well.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Janelle Hanchett wasn’t sure if she was crazy or the rest of the world was when she became a mother. She saw all the ideals and characters of “motherhood” and realized she didn’t fit hardy any of them. So she began her blog, Renegade Mothering, to see if others felt that same way. She attempts to break down the cultural narratives of what being a mother truly is, and she discusses her addictive past as well.

Janelle Hanchett created the blog Renegade Mothering in 2011 to determine if the rest of the mothering world was crazy or she was. She invited readers to join her in “the fight against helpful parenting advice” and wrote candidly about the darker sides of motherhood, including her own recovery from alcoholism. She’s the author of I’m Just Happy to Be Here as well.

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>cleanNonono00:56:11sriniBest of: How to Live Well and Die Well with Greg Hartle Pt. 2https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-live-well-die-well-greg-hartle-pt-2/
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 07:00:28 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8263InspiringIn one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why you can’t let past experiences always define your beliefs, the importance of having advantages in your life, and much more. Take a listen to Part 2 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why you can’t let past experiences always define your beliefs, the importance of having advantages in your life, and much more. Take a listen to Part 2 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why you can’t let past experiences always define your beliefs, the importance of having advantages in your life, and much more. Take a listen to Part 2 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why you can’t let past experiences always define your beliefs, the importance of having advantages in your life, and much more. Take a listen to Part 2 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why you can’t let past experiences always define your beliefs, the importance of having advantages in your life, and much more. Take a listen to Part 2 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why you can’t let past experiences always define your beliefs, the importance of having advantages in your life, and much more. Take a listen to Part 2 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>cleanNonono01:27:24sriniBest of: Navigating Seasons of Adversity with Neeta Bhushanhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-navigating-seasons-adversity-neeta-bhushan/
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:00:26 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8229InspiringNeeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

The Fearless Writer’s Workshop

I can tell you how to become an author and get publishers. I can teach you how to organize your thoughts and structure it into a book. But none of that matters if you write while hostage to your fears. In the Writer’s Workshop, I’ll help you let go of this baggage so that even if you do feel fear, you’ll be able to boldly and clearly say what you need to say. – Srinivas Rao,The Fearless Writer’s Workshop: https://unmistakablecreative.com/workshop/

]]>cleanNonono00:48:46sriniBest of: The Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers with Alex Banayanhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-quest-uncover-worlds-successful-people-launched-careers-alex-banayan/
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 07:00:42 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8215InspiringWhen he was growing up, Alex Banayan felt like it was his destiny to become a doctor. But once he got to college, he realized he wasn’t on the right path. Alex ended up going on The Price Is Right, winning, and using that money to go on a journey to track down the most successful people in the world and discover what they did to break through and launch their careers. He’s now one of the most successful businessmen in the US himself. Hear his story about discovery, risk-taking, and more.

Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door, the story of how he tracked down some of the most successful people in the world to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. He has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, Business Insider’s Most Powerful People Under 30, and been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, and CBS News. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world including Apple, Nike, IBM, Dell, MTV, Harvard, and countless others. You can find him on Twitter at @AlexBanayan

When he was growing up, Alex Banayan felt like it was his destiny to become a doctor. But once he got to college, he realized he wasn’t on the right path. Alex ended up going on The Price Is Right, winning, and using that money to go on a journey to track down the most successful people in the world and discover what they did to break through and launch their careers. He’s now one of the most successful businessmen in the US himself. Hear his story about discovery, risk-taking, and more.

Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door, the story of how he tracked down some of the most successful people in the world to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. He has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, Business Insider’s Most Powerful People Under 30, and been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, and CBS News. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world including Apple, Nike, IBM, Dell, MTV, Harvard, and countless others. You can find him on Twitter at @AlexBanayan

]]>When he was growing up, Alex Banayan felt like it was his destiny to become a doctor. But once he got to college, he realized he wasn’t on the right path. Alex ended up going on The Price Is Right, winning, and using that money to go on a journey to track down the most successful people in the world and discover what they did to break through and launch their careers. He’s now one of the most successful businessmen in the US himself. Hear his story about discovery, risk-taking, and more.

Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door, the story of how he tracked down some of the most successful people in the world to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. He has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, Business Insider’s Most Powerful People Under 30, and been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, and CBS News. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world including Apple, Nike, IBM, Dell, MTV, Harvard, and countless others. You can find him on Twitter at @AlexBanayan

When he was growing up, Alex Banayan felt like it was his destiny to become a doctor. But once he got to college, he realized he wasn’t on the right path. Alex ended up going on The Price Is Right, winning, and using that money to go on a journey to track down the most successful people in the world and discover what they did to break through and launch their careers. He’s now one of the most successful businessmen in the US himself. Hear his story about discovery, risk-taking, and more.

Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door, the story of how he tracked down some of the most successful people in the world to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. He has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, Business Insider’s Most Powerful People Under 30, and been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, and CBS News. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world including Apple, Nike, IBM, Dell, MTV, Harvard, and countless others. You can find him on Twitter at @AlexBanayan

]]>When he was growing up, Alex Banayan felt like it was his destiny to become a doctor. But once he got to college, he realized he wasn’t on the right path. Alex ended up going on The Price Is Right, winning, and using that money to go on a journey to track down the most successful people in the world and discover what they did to break through and launch their careers. He’s now one of the most successful businessmen in the US himself. Hear his story about discovery, risk-taking, and more.

Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door, the story of how he tracked down some of the most successful people in the world to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. He has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, Business Insider’s Most Powerful People Under 30, and been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, and CBS News. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world including Apple, Nike, IBM, Dell, MTV, Harvard, and countless others. You can find him on Twitter at @AlexBanayan

When he was growing up, Alex Banayan felt like it was his destiny to become a doctor. But once he got to college, he realized he wasn’t on the right path. Alex ended up going on The Price Is Right, winning, and using that money to go on a journey to track down the most successful people in the world and discover what they did to break through and launch their careers. He’s now one of the most successful businessmen in the US himself. Hear his story about discovery, risk-taking, and more.

Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door, the story of how he tracked down some of the most successful people in the world to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. He has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, Business Insider’s Most Powerful People Under 30, and been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, and CBS News. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world including Apple, Nike, IBM, Dell, MTV, Harvard, and countless others. You can find him on Twitter at @AlexBanayan

]]>cleanNonono00:58:07sriniBest of: Mastering Your Craft Through Deliberate Practice with Anders Ericssonhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-mastering-craft-deliberate-practice-anders-ericsson/
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 07:00:54 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8209InspiringEver heard the phrase “practice makes perfect?” According to Anders Ericsson, that’s only true if that practice is done deliberately and not simply absently-mindedly. He discusses the idea of deliberate practice and how to apply that not only to technical fields and artistic practices, but also to our daily work lives.

Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He focuses primarily on the idea of deliberate practice as a means of how expert performers acquire their superior performance.

Ever heard the phrase “practice makes perfect?” According to Anders Ericsson, that’s only true if that practice is done deliberately and not simply absently-mindedly. He discusses the idea of deliberate practice and how to apply that not only to technical fields and artistic practices, but also to our daily work lives.

Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He focuses primarily on the idea of deliberate practice as a means of how expert performers acquire their superior performance.

]]>Ever heard the phrase “practice makes perfect?” According to Anders Ericsson, that’s only true if that practice is done deliberately and not simply absently-mindedly. He discusses the idea of deliberate practice and how to apply that not only to technical fields and artistic practices, but also to our daily work lives.

Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He focuses primarily on the idea of deliberate practice as a means of how expert performers acquire their superior performance.

Ever heard the phrase “practice makes perfect?” According to Anders Ericsson, that’s only true if that practice is done deliberately and not simply absently-mindedly. He discusses the idea of deliberate practice and how to apply that not only to technical fields and artistic practices, but also to our daily work lives.

Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He focuses primarily on the idea of deliberate practice as a means of how expert performers acquire their superior performance.

]]>Ever heard the phrase “practice makes perfect?” According to Anders Ericsson, that’s only true if that practice is done deliberately and not simply absently-mindedly. He discusses the idea of deliberate practice and how to apply that not only to technical fields and artistic practices, but also to our daily work lives.

Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He focuses primarily on the idea of deliberate practice as a means of how expert performers acquire their superior performance.

Ever heard the phrase “practice makes perfect?” According to Anders Ericsson, that’s only true if that practice is done deliberately and not simply absently-mindedly. He discusses the idea of deliberate practice and how to apply that not only to technical fields and artistic practices, but also to our daily work lives.

Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He focuses primarily on the idea of deliberate practice as a means of how expert performers acquire their superior performance.

]]>cleanNonono00:50:44sriniBest of: The Neuroscience of Attention with Adam Gazzaleyhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/neuroscience-attention-adam-gazzaley/
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 07:00:46 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8199InspiringHow does attention work? Adam Gazzaley has devoted his career to figuring out the science behind how we develop attention and how to optimize it. He knows what we need to do in order to have peak attention, how to make our minds work more efficiently, and why education has failed us in giving us the tools to optimize our attention.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

How does attention work? Adam Gazzaley has devoted his career to figuring out the science behind how we develop attention and how to optimize it. He knows what we need to do in order to have peak attention, how to make our minds work more efficiently, and why education has failed us in giving us the tools to optimize our attention.

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Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

]]>How does attention work? Adam Gazzaley has devoted his career to figuring out the science behind how we develop attention and how to optimize it. He knows what we need to do in order to have peak attention, how to make our minds work more efficiently, and why education has failed us in giving us the tools to optimize our attention.

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Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

How does attention work? Adam Gazzaley has devoted his career to figuring out the science behind how we develop attention and how to optimize it. He knows what we need to do in order to have peak attention, how to make our minds work more efficiently, and why education has failed us in giving us the tools to optimize our attention.

Sponsors

Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

]]>How does attention work? Adam Gazzaley has devoted his career to figuring out the science behind how we develop attention and how to optimize it. He knows what we need to do in order to have peak attention, how to make our minds work more efficiently, and why education has failed us in giving us the tools to optimize our attention.

Sponsors

Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

How does attention work? Adam Gazzaley has devoted his career to figuring out the science behind how we develop attention and how to optimize it. He knows what we need to do in order to have peak attention, how to make our minds work more efficiently, and why education has failed us in giving us the tools to optimize our attention.

Sponsors

Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

]]>cleanNonono01:01:44sriniBest of: The Business and Mindset Blueprint of a Billionaire with Naveen Jainhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-business-mindset-blueprint-billionaire-naveen-jain/
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 07:00:30 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8192InspiringNaveen Jain has built multiple successful businesses across different industries. With a combination of the right mindset and a mission to solve problems that reach over a billion people, he’s tackling some of humanity’s most significant challenges. In this episode, you’ll learn about the importance of space travel, how we improve the healthcare system, and how we design the education system of the future.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Naveen Jain has built multiple successful businesses across different industries. With a combination of the right mindset and a mission to solve problems that reach over a billion people, he’s tackling some of humanity’s most significant challenges. In this episode, you’ll learn about the importance of space travel, how we improve the healthcare system, and how we design the education system of the future.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>Naveen Jain has built multiple successful businesses across different industries. With a combination of the right mindset and a mission to solve problems that reach over a billion people, he’s tackling some of humanity’s most significant challenges. In this episode, you’ll learn about the importance of space travel, how we improve the healthcare system, and how we design the education system of the future.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Naveen Jain has built multiple successful businesses across different industries. With a combination of the right mindset and a mission to solve problems that reach over a billion people, he’s tackling some of humanity’s most significant challenges. In this episode, you’ll learn about the importance of space travel, how we improve the healthcare system, and how we design the education system of the future.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>Naveen Jain has built multiple successful businesses across different industries. With a combination of the right mindset and a mission to solve problems that reach over a billion people, he’s tackling some of humanity’s most significant challenges. In this episode, you’ll learn about the importance of space travel, how we improve the healthcare system, and how we design the education system of the future.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Naveen Jain has built multiple successful businesses across different industries. With a combination of the right mindset and a mission to solve problems that reach over a billion people, he’s tackling some of humanity’s most significant challenges. In this episode, you’ll learn about the importance of space travel, how we improve the healthcare system, and how we design the education system of the future.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>cleanNonono01:07:54sriniBest of: How to Live Well and Die Well with Greg Hartle Pt. 1https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-live-well-die-well-greg-hartle-pt-1/
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 07:00:27 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8171InspiringIn one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why iconic figures may not be the best role models, why you should create a standard of excellence in every area of your life, and more. Take a listen to Part 1 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why iconic figures may not be the best role models, why you should create a standard of excellence in every area of your life, and more. Take a listen to Part 1 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

]]>In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why iconic figures may not be the best role models, why you should create a standard of excellence in every area of your life, and more. Take a listen to Part 1 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why iconic figures may not be the best role models, why you should create a standard of excellence in every area of your life, and more. Take a listen to Part 1 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

]]>In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why iconic figures may not be the best role models, why you should create a standard of excellence in every area of your life, and more. Take a listen to Part 1 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

In one of our best interviews ever, Greg Hartle joined us to share his wisdom on living life and why temporary circumstances don’t define our lives. Greg shares his thoughts on a multitude of topics, including why iconic figures may not be the best role models, why you should create a standard of excellence in every area of your life, and more. Take a listen to Part 1 of this two-part episode!

Greg Hartle is a an entrepreneur and smartist who has survived a misspent youth, a kidney transplant, and visited all 50 states using nothing more than ten dollars and a laptop. You can follow him on twitter @greghartle

]]>cleanNonono01:20:58sriniHow to be Kind to Yourself and Still Accomplish Your Goals with Nancy Jane Smithhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/kind-still-accomplish-goals-nancy-jane-smith/
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 07:00:53 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8158InspiringWhy do we continue to look for answers outside of ourselves when everything is telling us to look inside? In this episode, Author, Mental Health Therapist and Speaker, Nancy Jane Smith, joins us to reveal the wonderful ways of being kind to yourself while still accomplishing your goals. Nancy helps us to understand how to deal with your inner critic and acknowledge your emotions without becoming overwhelmed or being controlled by them. If the struggle for self-care while chasing your goals is something that you can relate with, do not miss the opportunity to hear this one-of-a-kind message that Nancy has to share with you.

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Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Why do we continue to look for answers outside of ourselves when everything is telling us to look inside? In this episode, Author, Mental Health Therapist and Speaker, Nancy Jane Smith, joins us to reveal the wonderful ways of being kind to yourself while still accomplishing your goals. Nancy helps us to understand how to deal with your inner critic and acknowledge your emotions without becoming overwhelmed or being controlled by them. If the struggle for self-care while chasing your goals is something that you can relate with, do not miss the opportunity to hear this one-of-a-kind message that Nancy has to share with you.

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Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>Why do we continue to look for answers outside of ourselves when everything is telling us to look inside? In this episode, Author, Mental Health Therapist and Speaker, Nancy Jane Smith, joins us to reveal the wonderful ways of being kind to yourself while still accomplishing your goals. Nancy helps us to understand how to deal with your inner critic and acknowledge your emotions without becoming overwhelmed or being controlled by them. If the struggle for self-care while chasing your goals is something that you can relate with, do not miss the opportunity to hear this one-of-a-kind message that Nancy has to share with you.

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Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Why do we continue to look for answers outside of ourselves when everything is telling us to look inside? In this episode, Author, Mental Health Therapist and Speaker, Nancy Jane Smith, joins us to reveal the wonderful ways of being kind to yourself while still accomplishing your goals. Nancy helps us to understand how to deal with your inner critic and acknowledge your emotions without becoming overwhelmed or being controlled by them. If the struggle for self-care while chasing your goals is something that you can relate with, do not miss the opportunity to hear this one-of-a-kind message that Nancy has to share with you.

Sponsors

Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>Why do we continue to look for answers outside of ourselves when everything is telling us to look inside? In this episode, Author, Mental Health Therapist and Speaker, Nancy Jane Smith, joins us to reveal the wonderful ways of being kind to yourself while still accomplishing your goals. Nancy helps us to understand how to deal with your inner critic and acknowledge your emotions without becoming overwhelmed or being controlled by them. If the struggle for self-care while chasing your goals is something that you can relate with, do not miss the opportunity to hear this one-of-a-kind message that Nancy has to share with you.

Sponsors

Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Why do we continue to look for answers outside of ourselves when everything is telling us to look inside? In this episode, Author, Mental Health Therapist and Speaker, Nancy Jane Smith, joins us to reveal the wonderful ways of being kind to yourself while still accomplishing your goals. Nancy helps us to understand how to deal with your inner critic and acknowledge your emotions without becoming overwhelmed or being controlled by them. If the struggle for self-care while chasing your goals is something that you can relate with, do not miss the opportunity to hear this one-of-a-kind message that Nancy has to share with you.

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Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20 000 classes in just about anything you might be interested in. Join millions of other students today with a special offer for our listeners. That’s 2 months of unlimited access to Skillshare classes for just $0.99. To sign up, simply visit skillshare.com/create

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>cleanNonono00:51:38sriniThe Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness with Ingrid Fetell Leehttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/surprising-power-ordinary-things-create-extraordinary-happiness-ingrid-fetell-lee/
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 07:00:14 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8121InspiringIngrid Fetell Lee is a designer and writer whose work focuses on the way that design affects our health and happiness. In this episode, we get to hear some of the knowledge that Ingrid has to share on the amazing ways that our surroundings, nature and design can ignite feelings of joy and happiness within us, as well as the interesting scientific and psychological reasons behind why this happens.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Ingrid Fetell Lee is a designer and writer whose work focuses on the way that design affects our health and happiness. In this episode, we get to hear some of the knowledge that Ingrid has to share on the amazing ways that our surroundings, nature and design can ignite feelings of joy and happiness within us, as well as the interesting scientific and psychological reasons behind why this happens.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>Ingrid Fetell Lee is a designer and writer whose work focuses on the way that design affects our health and happiness. In this episode, we get to hear some of the knowledge that Ingrid has to share on the amazing ways that our surroundings, nature and design can ignite feelings of joy and happiness within us, as well as the interesting scientific and psychological reasons behind why this happens.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Ingrid Fetell Lee is a designer and writer whose work focuses on the way that design affects our health and happiness. In this episode, we get to hear some of the knowledge that Ingrid has to share on the amazing ways that our surroundings, nature and design can ignite feelings of joy and happiness within us, as well as the interesting scientific and psychological reasons behind why this happens.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>Ingrid Fetell Lee is a designer and writer whose work focuses on the way that design affects our health and happiness. In this episode, we get to hear some of the knowledge that Ingrid has to share on the amazing ways that our surroundings, nature and design can ignite feelings of joy and happiness within us, as well as the interesting scientific and psychological reasons behind why this happens.

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Ingrid Fetell Lee is a designer and writer whose work focuses on the way that design affects our health and happiness. In this episode, we get to hear some of the knowledge that Ingrid has to share on the amazing ways that our surroundings, nature and design can ignite feelings of joy and happiness within us, as well as the interesting scientific and psychological reasons behind why this happens.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>cleanNonono01:01:05sriniUnmistakable Nuggets: Doing Life by Designhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/unmistakable-nuggets-life-design/
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 07:00:26 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8091InspiringJim Bunch explains the powerful effects that different environments have on our lives and how we can use them to take control and go from doing life by default to doing life by design.

Jim Bunch explains the powerful effects that different environments have on our lives and how we can use them to take control and go from doing life by default to doing life by design.

]]>Jim Bunch explains the powerful effects that different environments have on our lives and how we can use them to take control and go from doing life by default to doing life by design.

Jim Bunch explains the powerful effects that different environments have on our lives and how we can use them to take control and go from doing life by default to doing life by design.

]]>Jim Bunch explains the powerful effects that different environments have on our lives and how we can use them to take control and go from doing life by default to doing life by design.

Jim Bunch explains the powerful effects that different environments have on our lives and how we can use them to take control and go from doing life by default to doing life by design.

]]>cleanNonono00:04:00sriniNavigating Life, Love and Fiction in New York City with Jennifer Millerhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/navigating-life-love-fiction-new-york-city-jennifer-miller/
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 07:00:17 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=8007InspiringThe Big Apple; brimming with life, love and everlasting romance. It’s no wonder dating in New York can be an uncertain, emotional roller-coaster. Jennifer Miller is a Journalist and Author who recently co-wrote Mr. Nice Guy with her husband, Jason Feifer, who is the editor-in-chief at the Entrepreneur magazine. In this episode, Jennifer joins us to share some valuable insights from her journey as a freelance writer. More than this, she dives into what it’s like to live and love in New York with a peak into their latest fiction novel – MR. NICE GUY

You can follow Jennifer on Twitter and Instagram at@propjen and you can also follow Jason on Twitter and Instagram at@heyfeifer

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

The Big Apple; brimming with life, love and everlasting romance. It’s no wonder dating in New York can be an uncertain, emotional roller-coaster. Jennifer Miller is a Journalist and Author who recently co-wrote Mr. Nice Guy with her husband, Jason Feifer, who is the editor-in-chief at the Entrepreneur magazine. In this episode, Jennifer joins us to share some valuable insights from her journey as a freelance writer. More than this, she dives into what it’s like to live and love in New York with a peak into their latest fiction novel – MR. NICE GUY

You can follow Jennifer on Twitter and Instagram at@propjen and you can also follow Jason on Twitter and Instagram at@heyfeifer

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>The Big Apple; brimming with life, love and everlasting romance. It’s no wonder dating in New York can be an uncertain, emotional roller-coaster. Jennifer Miller is a Journalist and Author who recently co-wrote Mr. Nice Guy with her husband, Jason Feifer, who is the editor-in-chief at the Entrepreneur magazine. In this episode, Jennifer joins us to share some valuable insights from her journey as a freelance writer. More than this, she dives into what it’s like to live and love in New York with a peak into their latest fiction novel – MR. NICE GUY

You can follow Jennifer on Twitter and Instagram at@propjen and you can also follow Jason on Twitter and Instagram at@heyfeifer

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

The Big Apple; brimming with life, love and everlasting romance. It’s no wonder dating in New York can be an uncertain, emotional roller-coaster. Jennifer Miller is a Journalist and Author who recently co-wrote Mr. Nice Guy with her husband, Jason Feifer, who is the editor-in-chief at the Entrepreneur magazine. In this episode, Jennifer joins us to share some valuable insights from her journey as a freelance writer. More than this, she dives into what it’s like to live and love in New York with a peak into their latest fiction novel – MR. NICE GUY

You can follow Jennifer on Twitter and Instagram at@propjen and you can also follow Jason on Twitter and Instagram at@heyfeifer

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>The Big Apple; brimming with life, love and everlasting romance. It’s no wonder dating in New York can be an uncertain, emotional roller-coaster. Jennifer Miller is a Journalist and Author who recently co-wrote Mr. Nice Guy with her husband, Jason Feifer, who is the editor-in-chief at the Entrepreneur magazine. In this episode, Jennifer joins us to share some valuable insights from her journey as a freelance writer. More than this, she dives into what it’s like to live and love in New York with a peak into their latest fiction novel – MR. NICE GUY

You can follow Jennifer on Twitter and Instagram at@propjen and you can also follow Jason on Twitter and Instagram at@heyfeifer

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

The Big Apple; brimming with life, love and everlasting romance. It’s no wonder dating in New York can be an uncertain, emotional roller-coaster. Jennifer Miller is a Journalist and Author who recently co-wrote Mr. Nice Guy with her husband, Jason Feifer, who is the editor-in-chief at the Entrepreneur magazine. In this episode, Jennifer joins us to share some valuable insights from her journey as a freelance writer. More than this, she dives into what it’s like to live and love in New York with a peak into their latest fiction novel – MR. NICE GUY

You can follow Jennifer on Twitter and Instagram at@propjen and you can also follow Jason on Twitter and Instagram at@heyfeifer

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>cleanNonono00:50:28sriniFrom Imagination to Invention with Chris Aimonehttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/imagination-invention-chris-aimone/
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:00:32 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7943InspiringChris Aimone is the co-founder and CEO of Muse, a tech company that has developed a revolutionary headband that meets brain sensing technology with meditation. During our discussion, Chris talks about where he found his inspiration for Muse, what lead him to where he is now, the unique proven benefits of using Muse for meditation as well as how to get out of your comfort zone in order to maintain creative flow. These are only to name a few as Chris unveils many more remarkable insights into harnessing the benefits of technology in order to lead a more fruitful life.

To find out more about Chris Aimone and Muse, simply visit choosemuse.com

Chris Aimone is the co-founder and CEO of Muse, a tech company that has developed a revolutionary headband that meets brain sensing technology with meditation. During our discussion, Chris talks about where he found his inspiration for Muse, what lead him to where he is now, the unique proven benefits of using Muse for meditation as well as how to get out of your comfort zone in order to maintain creative flow. These are only to name a few as Chris unveils many more remarkable insights into harnessing the benefits of technology in order to lead a more fruitful life.

To find out more about Chris Aimone and Muse, simply visit choosemuse.com

]]>Chris Aimone is the co-founder and CEO of Muse, a tech company that has developed a revolutionary headband that meets brain sensing technology with meditation. During our discussion, Chris talks about where he found his inspiration for Muse, what lead him to where he is now, the unique proven benefits of using Muse for meditation as well as how to get out of your comfort zone in order to maintain creative flow. These are only to name a few as Chris unveils many more remarkable insights into harnessing the benefits of technology in order to lead a more fruitful life.

To find out more about Chris Aimone and Muse, simply visit choosemuse.com

Chris Aimone is the co-founder and CEO of Muse, a tech company that has developed a revolutionary headband that meets brain sensing technology with meditation. During our discussion, Chris talks about where he found his inspiration for Muse, what lead him to where he is now, the unique proven benefits of using Muse for meditation as well as how to get out of your comfort zone in order to maintain creative flow. These are only to name a few as Chris unveils many more remarkable insights into harnessing the benefits of technology in order to lead a more fruitful life.

To find out more about Chris Aimone and Muse, simply visit choosemuse.com

]]>Chris Aimone is the co-founder and CEO of Muse, a tech company that has developed a revolutionary headband that meets brain sensing technology with meditation. During our discussion, Chris talks about where he found his inspiration for Muse, what lead him to where he is now, the unique proven benefits of using Muse for meditation as well as how to get out of your comfort zone in order to maintain creative flow. These are only to name a few as Chris unveils many more remarkable insights into harnessing the benefits of technology in order to lead a more fruitful life.

To find out more about Chris Aimone and Muse, simply visit choosemuse.com

Chris Aimone is the co-founder and CEO of Muse, a tech company that has developed a revolutionary headband that meets brain sensing technology with meditation. During our discussion, Chris talks about where he found his inspiration for Muse, what lead him to where he is now, the unique proven benefits of using Muse for meditation as well as how to get out of your comfort zone in order to maintain creative flow. These are only to name a few as Chris unveils many more remarkable insights into harnessing the benefits of technology in order to lead a more fruitful life.

To find out more about Chris Aimone and Muse, simply visit choosemuse.com

Phillip Mckernan sheds light on the freedom and exponential growth that follows the moment we find our voice – and just where to find it.

]]>Phillip Mckernan sheds light on the freedom and exponential growth that follows the moment we find our voice – and just where to find it.

Phillip Mckernan sheds light on the freedom and exponential growth that follows the moment we find our voice – and just where to find it.

]]>Phillip Mckernan sheds light on the freedom and exponential growth that follows the moment we find our voice – and just where to find it.

Phillip Mckernan sheds light on the freedom and exponential growth that follows the moment we find our voice – and just where to find it.

]]>cleanNonono00:01:38sriniHow Nature Impacts Your Creativity with Florence Williamshttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/nature-impacts-creativity-florence-williams/
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 07:00:43 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7830InspiringFlorence Williams, journalist and author, joins us in this episode to unveil the remarkable relationship between creativity, the human brain and nature. Florence’s work is rooted in scientific research and uses easy-to-understand logic to explain the profound and awe-inspiring neurological benefits of being in the wild. Take a moment to tune in to what she has to share and you will be on your way to creativity.

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Florence Williams, journalist and author, joins us in this episode to unveil the remarkable relationship between creativity, the human brain and nature. Florence’s work is rooted in scientific research and uses easy-to-understand logic to explain the profound and awe-inspiring neurological benefits of being in the wild. Take a moment to tune in to what she has to share and you will be on your way to creativity.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>Florence Williams, journalist and author, joins us in this episode to unveil the remarkable relationship between creativity, the human brain and nature. Florence’s work is rooted in scientific research and uses easy-to-understand logic to explain the profound and awe-inspiring neurological benefits of being in the wild. Take a moment to tune in to what she has to share and you will be on your way to creativity.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Florence Williams, journalist and author, joins us in this episode to unveil the remarkable relationship between creativity, the human brain and nature. Florence’s work is rooted in scientific research and uses easy-to-understand logic to explain the profound and awe-inspiring neurological benefits of being in the wild. Take a moment to tune in to what she has to share and you will be on your way to creativity.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>Florence Williams, journalist and author, joins us in this episode to unveil the remarkable relationship between creativity, the human brain and nature. Florence’s work is rooted in scientific research and uses easy-to-understand logic to explain the profound and awe-inspiring neurological benefits of being in the wild. Take a moment to tune in to what she has to share and you will be on your way to creativity.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

Florence Williams, journalist and author, joins us in this episode to unveil the remarkable relationship between creativity, the human brain and nature. Florence’s work is rooted in scientific research and uses easy-to-understand logic to explain the profound and awe-inspiring neurological benefits of being in the wild. Take a moment to tune in to what she has to share and you will be on your way to creativity.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge, simply visit https://reason8.ai/ and download the app.

]]>cleanNonono00:44:21sriniSpreading Your Message and Mission through Word of Mouth with Jay Baerhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/spreading-message-mission-word-mouth-jay-baer/
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 07:00:21 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7808InspiringJay Baer is an award-winning Internet pioneer who helps brands improve their digital marketing and customer experience. In this episode, we get to discuss some of Jay’s most helpful methods on applying this in your own life which can be found in his most recent book, Talk Triggers. Jay discusses how to build a word of mouth strategy that will result in you becoming more talkable and in-turn, spread your message and your mission.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

Jay Baer is an award-winning Internet pioneer who helps brands improve their digital marketing and customer experience. In this episode, we get to discuss some of Jay’s most helpful methods on applying this in your own life which can be found in his most recent book, Talk Triggers. Jay discusses how to build a word of mouth strategy that will result in you becoming more talkable and in-turn, spread your message and your mission.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

]]>Jay Baer is an award-winning Internet pioneer who helps brands improve their digital marketing and customer experience. In this episode, we get to discuss some of Jay’s most helpful methods on applying this in your own life which can be found in his most recent book, Talk Triggers. Jay discusses how to build a word of mouth strategy that will result in you becoming more talkable and in-turn, spread your message and your mission.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

Jay Baer is an award-winning Internet pioneer who helps brands improve their digital marketing and customer experience. In this episode, we get to discuss some of Jay’s most helpful methods on applying this in your own life which can be found in his most recent book, Talk Triggers. Jay discusses how to build a word of mouth strategy that will result in you becoming more talkable and in-turn, spread your message and your mission.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

]]>Jay Baer is an award-winning Internet pioneer who helps brands improve their digital marketing and customer experience. In this episode, we get to discuss some of Jay’s most helpful methods on applying this in your own life which can be found in his most recent book, Talk Triggers. Jay discusses how to build a word of mouth strategy that will result in you becoming more talkable and in-turn, spread your message and your mission.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

Jay Baer is an award-winning Internet pioneer who helps brands improve their digital marketing and customer experience. In this episode, we get to discuss some of Jay’s most helpful methods on applying this in your own life which can be found in his most recent book, Talk Triggers. Jay discusses how to build a word of mouth strategy that will result in you becoming more talkable and in-turn, spread your message and your mission.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

Exo Protein bars aren’t just the latest health food craze. They’re a revolution. They use cricket protein to create a superfood that’s good for you… and for the planet! They have Cricket Protein Bars, Paleo Bites and seasoned Whole Roasted Crickets, all of them are available for purchase on their website ExoProtein.com. Use the discount code Creative for 15% savings.

]]>cleanNonono00:50:00sriniUnmistakable Nuggets: The Pilothttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/unmistakable-nuggets-pilot/
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 07:00:56 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7802InspiringSeth Godin reveals why reassurance is futile and why there is no amount of reassurance that will confirm you of the things you truly care about. In order to be a creative, we need to learn how to move forward without it.

Seth Godin reveals why reassurance is futile and why there is no amount of reassurance that will confirm you of the things you truly care about. In order to be a creative, we need to learn how to move forward without it.

]]>Seth Godin reveals why reassurance is futile and why there is no amount of reassurance that will confirm you of the things you truly care about. In order to be a creative, we need to learn how to move forward without it.

Seth Godin reveals why reassurance is futile and why there is no amount of reassurance that will confirm you of the things you truly care about. In order to be a creative, we need to learn how to move forward without it.

]]>Seth Godin reveals why reassurance is futile and why there is no amount of reassurance that will confirm you of the things you truly care about. In order to be a creative, we need to learn how to move forward without it.

Seth Godin reveals why reassurance is futile and why there is no amount of reassurance that will confirm you of the things you truly care about. In order to be a creative, we need to learn how to move forward without it.

]]>cleanNonono00:02:23sriniGiving a Megaphone to Stories that Need to be Heard with Mason Aidhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/giving-megaphone-stories-need-heard-mason-aid/
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 07:00:16 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7768InspiringWe live in an ever-progressing society, in which LGBTQ teens and adults alike are fighting for a place to exist. Mason Aid is an LGBTQ consultant who helps businesses become more inclusive in the workplace through consultation, copy audits and staff training. Mason shares some first-hand, touching stories of her experience growing up as well as encouraging guidance that will not only prove helpful to members of the LGBTQ society but everyone included. So pay attention to what they have to share in this episode because it’s not to be missed.

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Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

We live in an ever-progressing society, in which LGBTQ teens and adults alike are fighting for a place to exist. Mason Aid is an LGBTQ consultant who helps businesses become more inclusive in the workplace through consultation, copy audits and staff training. Mason shares some first-hand, touching stories of her experience growing up as well as encouraging guidance that will not only prove helpful to members of the LGBTQ society but everyone included. So pay attention to what they have to share in this episode because it’s not to be missed.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

]]>We live in an ever-progressing society, in which LGBTQ teens and adults alike are fighting for a place to exist. Mason Aid is an LGBTQ consultant who helps businesses become more inclusive in the workplace through consultation, copy audits and staff training. Mason shares some first-hand, touching stories of her experience growing up as well as encouraging guidance that will not only prove helpful to members of the LGBTQ society but everyone included. So pay attention to what they have to share in this episode because it’s not to be missed.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

We live in an ever-progressing society, in which LGBTQ teens and adults alike are fighting for a place to exist. Mason Aid is an LGBTQ consultant who helps businesses become more inclusive in the workplace through consultation, copy audits and staff training. Mason shares some first-hand, touching stories of her experience growing up as well as encouraging guidance that will not only prove helpful to members of the LGBTQ society but everyone included. So pay attention to what they have to share in this episode because it’s not to be missed.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

]]>We live in an ever-progressing society, in which LGBTQ teens and adults alike are fighting for a place to exist. Mason Aid is an LGBTQ consultant who helps businesses become more inclusive in the workplace through consultation, copy audits and staff training. Mason shares some first-hand, touching stories of her experience growing up as well as encouraging guidance that will not only prove helpful to members of the LGBTQ society but everyone included. So pay attention to what they have to share in this episode because it’s not to be missed.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

We live in an ever-progressing society, in which LGBTQ teens and adults alike are fighting for a place to exist. Mason Aid is an LGBTQ consultant who helps businesses become more inclusive in the workplace through consultation, copy audits and staff training. Mason shares some first-hand, touching stories of her experience growing up as well as encouraging guidance that will not only prove helpful to members of the LGBTQ society but everyone included. So pay attention to what they have to share in this episode because it’s not to be missed.

Sponsors

Reason8 is an AI-powered service for automated note-taking and preparation of summaries and minutes for in-person business meetings. To turn your conversations into knowledge simply visit https://reason8.ai/ to download the app.

]]>cleanNonono00:36:04sriniBringing the Humanity back to Digital Communication with Val Geislerhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/bringing-humanity-back-digital-communication-val-geisler/
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 07:00:45 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7752InspiringVal Geisler has spent the last six years highly involved in customer experience and research and is largely skilled in using better email sequences to generate more revenue for your business. Val adds a creative flare with a dose of wisdom to the topic of human behavior and communication. In a world run by computers, intimacy and relationship can all too often be lost in translation. Val shares the knowledge she has gained through years of experience that accurately defines what it means to bring humanity back to digital communication.

Val Geisler has spent the last six years highly involved in customer experience and research and is largely skilled in using better email sequences to generate more revenue for your business. Val adds a creative flare with a dose of wisdom to the topic of human behavior and communication. In a world run by computers, intimacy and relationship can all too often be lost in translation. Val shares the knowledge she has gained through years of experience that accurately defines what it means to bring humanity back to digital communication.

]]>Val Geisler has spent the last six years highly involved in customer experience and research and is largely skilled in using better email sequences to generate more revenue for your business. Val adds a creative flare with a dose of wisdom to the topic of human behavior and communication. In a world run by computers, intimacy and relationship can all too often be lost in translation. Val shares the knowledge she has gained through years of experience that accurately defines what it means to bring humanity back to digital communication.

Val Geisler has spent the last six years highly involved in customer experience and research and is largely skilled in using better email sequences to generate more revenue for your business. Val adds a creative flare with a dose of wisdom to the topic of human behavior and communication. In a world run by computers, intimacy and relationship can all too often be lost in translation. Val shares the knowledge she has gained through years of experience that accurately defines what it means to bring humanity back to digital communication.

]]>Val Geisler has spent the last six years highly involved in customer experience and research and is largely skilled in using better email sequences to generate more revenue for your business. Val adds a creative flare with a dose of wisdom to the topic of human behavior and communication. In a world run by computers, intimacy and relationship can all too often be lost in translation. Val shares the knowledge she has gained through years of experience that accurately defines what it means to bring humanity back to digital communication.

Val Geisler has spent the last six years highly involved in customer experience and research and is largely skilled in using better email sequences to generate more revenue for your business. Val adds a creative flare with a dose of wisdom to the topic of human behavior and communication. In a world run by computers, intimacy and relationship can all too often be lost in translation. Val shares the knowledge she has gained through years of experience that accurately defines what it means to bring humanity back to digital communication.

]]>cleanNonono00:49:20sriniBest Of: The Creation of Atari and Finding The Next Steve Jobs with Nolan Bushnellhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-creation-atari-finding-next-steve-jobs-nolan-bushnell/
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 07:00:51 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7711InspiringNolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, as well as Steve Jobs’ mentor, shares views on education, reconnecting with your curiosity and developing creativity to connect it to your vision.

In this episode:

How do we better prepare people for today’s society?

How schools have become warehouses

How do we recognize early mentors?

Credentials vs knowledge

Are we born with awareness or can we cultivate it?

Is ability to navigate emotional uncertainty something we are born with?

The future of the web

“If you’re curious and passionate, school is unnecessary… We’re finding more and more the true movers and shakers of society are not educated.”

“Be entrepreneurial early and often.” ~ Nolan Bushnell

Resources

Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, prolific entrepreneur, and scientist. He’s often cited as the father of the video game industry. Nolan is devoted to fixing education with his new company, Brainrush. A biopic, tentatively titled “Atari” is in pre-production, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan.

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, as well as Steve Jobs’ mentor, shares views on education, reconnecting with your curiosity and developing creativity to connect it to your vision.

In this episode:

How do we better prepare people for today’s society?

How schools have become warehouses

How do we recognize early mentors?

Credentials vs knowledge

Are we born with awareness or can we cultivate it?

Is ability to navigate emotional uncertainty something we are born with?

The future of the web

“If you’re curious and passionate, school is unnecessary… We’re finding more and more the true movers and shakers of society are not educated.”

“Be entrepreneurial early and often.” ~ Nolan Bushnell

Resources

Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, prolific entrepreneur, and scientist. He’s often cited as the father of the video game industry. Nolan is devoted to fixing education with his new company, Brainrush. A biopic, tentatively titled “Atari” is in pre-production, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan.

]]>Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, as well as Steve Jobs’ mentor, shares views on education, reconnecting with your curiosity and developing creativity to connect it to your vision.

In this episode:

How do we better prepare people for today’s society?

How schools have become warehouses

How do we recognize early mentors?

Credentials vs knowledge

Are we born with awareness or can we cultivate it?

Is ability to navigate emotional uncertainty something we are born with?

The future of the web

“If you’re curious and passionate, school is unnecessary… We’re finding more and more the true movers and shakers of society are not educated.”

“Be entrepreneurial early and often.” ~ Nolan Bushnell

Resources

Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, prolific entrepreneur, and scientist. He’s often cited as the father of the video game industry. Nolan is devoted to fixing education with his new company, Brainrush. A biopic, tentatively titled “Atari” is in pre-production, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan.

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, as well as Steve Jobs’ mentor, shares views on education, reconnecting with your curiosity and developing creativity to connect it to your vision.

In this episode:

How do we better prepare people for today’s society?

How schools have become warehouses

How do we recognize early mentors?

Credentials vs knowledge

Are we born with awareness or can we cultivate it?

Is ability to navigate emotional uncertainty something we are born with?

The future of the web

“If you’re curious and passionate, school is unnecessary… We’re finding more and more the true movers and shakers of society are not educated.”

“Be entrepreneurial early and often.” ~ Nolan Bushnell

Resources

Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, prolific entrepreneur, and scientist. He’s often cited as the father of the video game industry. Nolan is devoted to fixing education with his new company, Brainrush. A biopic, tentatively titled “Atari” is in pre-production, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan.

]]>Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, as well as Steve Jobs’ mentor, shares views on education, reconnecting with your curiosity and developing creativity to connect it to your vision.

In this episode:

How do we better prepare people for today’s society?

How schools have become warehouses

How do we recognize early mentors?

Credentials vs knowledge

Are we born with awareness or can we cultivate it?

Is ability to navigate emotional uncertainty something we are born with?

The future of the web

“If you’re curious and passionate, school is unnecessary… We’re finding more and more the true movers and shakers of society are not educated.”

“Be entrepreneurial early and often.” ~ Nolan Bushnell

Resources

Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, prolific entrepreneur, and scientist. He’s often cited as the father of the video game industry. Nolan is devoted to fixing education with his new company, Brainrush. A biopic, tentatively titled “Atari” is in pre-production, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan.

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, as well as Steve Jobs’ mentor, shares views on education, reconnecting with your curiosity and developing creativity to connect it to your vision.

In this episode:

How do we better prepare people for today’s society?

How schools have become warehouses

How do we recognize early mentors?

Credentials vs knowledge

Are we born with awareness or can we cultivate it?

Is ability to navigate emotional uncertainty something we are born with?

The future of the web

“If you’re curious and passionate, school is unnecessary… We’re finding more and more the true movers and shakers of society are not educated.”

“Be entrepreneurial early and often.” ~ Nolan Bushnell

Resources

Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, prolific entrepreneur, and scientist. He’s often cited as the father of the video game industry. Nolan is devoted to fixing education with his new company, Brainrush. A biopic, tentatively titled “Atari” is in pre-production, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan.

]]>cleanNonono01:00:35sriniDesigning a Business that runs itself with Mike Michalowiczhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/designing-business-runs-mike-michalowicz/
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 07:00:07 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7699InspiringMike Michalowiz is an author, entrepreneur and lecturer. By the age of just 35, Mike had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. After becoming an angel investor and then losing his entire fortune, Mike started all over again. Through this trying experience, he became driven to discover the recipe for a truly successful business. In our discussion we learn how Mike created the ‘Profit First Formula’. Join us and discover the secret to designing a business so healthy, that it runs itself.

To find more on Mike’s books, The Profit First Podcast, his blog and much, much more, simply visit MikeMotorbike.com

Sponsors

HelloFresh is a meal kit delivery service that shops, plans, and delivers step-by-step recipes and pre-measured ingredients so you can just cook, eat, and enjoy. For a total of $60 off, that’s $20 off for your first 3 boxes, visit HelloFresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code ‘unmistakable60’.

Mike Michalowiz is an author, entrepreneur and lecturer. By the age of just 35, Mike had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. After becoming an angel investor and then losing his entire fortune, Mike started all over again. Through this trying experience, he became driven to discover the recipe for a truly successful business. In our discussion we learn how Mike created the ‘Profit First Formula’. Join us and discover the secret to designing a business so healthy, that it runs itself.

To find more on Mike’s books, The Profit First Podcast, his blog and much, much more, simply visit MikeMotorbike.com

Sponsors

HelloFresh is a meal kit delivery service that shops, plans, and delivers step-by-step recipes and pre-measured ingredients so you can just cook, eat, and enjoy. For a total of $60 off, that’s $20 off for your first 3 boxes, visit HelloFresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code ‘unmistakable60’.

]]>Mike Michalowiz is an author, entrepreneur and lecturer. By the age of just 35, Mike had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. After becoming an angel investor and then losing his entire fortune, Mike started all over again. Through this trying experience, he became driven to discover the recipe for a truly successful business. In our discussion we learn how Mike created the ‘Profit First Formula’. Join us and discover the secret to designing a business so healthy, that it runs itself.

To find more on Mike’s books, The Profit First Podcast, his blog and much, much more, simply visit MikeMotorbike.com

Sponsors

HelloFresh is a meal kit delivery service that shops, plans, and delivers step-by-step recipes and pre-measured ingredients so you can just cook, eat, and enjoy. For a total of $60 off, that’s $20 off for your first 3 boxes, visit HelloFresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code ‘unmistakable60’.

Mike Michalowiz is an author, entrepreneur and lecturer. By the age of just 35, Mike had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. After becoming an angel investor and then losing his entire fortune, Mike started all over again. Through this trying experience, he became driven to discover the recipe for a truly successful business. In our discussion we learn how Mike created the ‘Profit First Formula’. Join us and discover the secret to designing a business so healthy, that it runs itself.

To find more on Mike’s books, The Profit First Podcast, his blog and much, much more, simply visit MikeMotorbike.com

Sponsors

HelloFresh is a meal kit delivery service that shops, plans, and delivers step-by-step recipes and pre-measured ingredients so you can just cook, eat, and enjoy. For a total of $60 off, that’s $20 off for your first 3 boxes, visit HelloFresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code ‘unmistakable60’.

]]>Mike Michalowiz is an author, entrepreneur and lecturer. By the age of just 35, Mike had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. After becoming an angel investor and then losing his entire fortune, Mike started all over again. Through this trying experience, he became driven to discover the recipe for a truly successful business. In our discussion we learn how Mike created the ‘Profit First Formula’. Join us and discover the secret to designing a business so healthy, that it runs itself.

To find more on Mike’s books, The Profit First Podcast, his blog and much, much more, simply visit MikeMotorbike.com

Sponsors

HelloFresh is a meal kit delivery service that shops, plans, and delivers step-by-step recipes and pre-measured ingredients so you can just cook, eat, and enjoy. For a total of $60 off, that’s $20 off for your first 3 boxes, visit HelloFresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code ‘unmistakable60’.

Mike Michalowiz is an author, entrepreneur and lecturer. By the age of just 35, Mike had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. After becoming an angel investor and then losing his entire fortune, Mike started all over again. Through this trying experience, he became driven to discover the recipe for a truly successful business. In our discussion we learn how Mike created the ‘Profit First Formula’. Join us and discover the secret to designing a business so healthy, that it runs itself.

To find more on Mike’s books, The Profit First Podcast, his blog and much, much more, simply visit MikeMotorbike.com

Sponsors

HelloFresh is a meal kit delivery service that shops, plans, and delivers step-by-step recipes and pre-measured ingredients so you can just cook, eat, and enjoy. For a total of $60 off, that’s $20 off for your first 3 boxes, visit HelloFresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code ‘unmistakable60’.

]]>cleanNonono00:50:32sriniWisdom at Work with Chip Conleyhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/wisdom-work-chip-conley/
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 07:00:07 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7688InspiringIn this episode we sit down with hotelier, hospitality entrepreneur, author and speaker, Chip Conley. Throughout the discussion, Chip addresses many brilliant questions, only to unveil even more astounding answers. Discover how to create psychological safety and collaboration in the workplace, how to use personality assessment tools as well as the practical advantages of implicit trade agreements. Chip also shares many wisdom-filled pointers on dealing with despair, finding real happiness and why we should never stop learning. It’s time to wise up and listen in, because this and much more is in store.

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

In this episode we sit down with hotelier, hospitality entrepreneur, author and speaker, Chip Conley. Throughout the discussion, Chip addresses many brilliant questions, only to unveil even more astounding answers. Discover how to create psychological safety and collaboration in the workplace, how to use personality assessment tools as well as the practical advantages of implicit trade agreements. Chip also shares many wisdom-filled pointers on dealing with despair, finding real happiness and why we should never stop learning. It’s time to wise up and listen in, because this and much more is in store.

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

]]>In this episode we sit down with hotelier, hospitality entrepreneur, author and speaker, Chip Conley. Throughout the discussion, Chip addresses many brilliant questions, only to unveil even more astounding answers. Discover how to create psychological safety and collaboration in the workplace, how to use personality assessment tools as well as the practical advantages of implicit trade agreements. Chip also shares many wisdom-filled pointers on dealing with despair, finding real happiness and why we should never stop learning. It’s time to wise up and listen in, because this and much more is in store.

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

In this episode we sit down with hotelier, hospitality entrepreneur, author and speaker, Chip Conley. Throughout the discussion, Chip addresses many brilliant questions, only to unveil even more astounding answers. Discover how to create psychological safety and collaboration in the workplace, how to use personality assessment tools as well as the practical advantages of implicit trade agreements. Chip also shares many wisdom-filled pointers on dealing with despair, finding real happiness and why we should never stop learning. It’s time to wise up and listen in, because this and much more is in store.

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

]]>In this episode we sit down with hotelier, hospitality entrepreneur, author and speaker, Chip Conley. Throughout the discussion, Chip addresses many brilliant questions, only to unveil even more astounding answers. Discover how to create psychological safety and collaboration in the workplace, how to use personality assessment tools as well as the practical advantages of implicit trade agreements. Chip also shares many wisdom-filled pointers on dealing with despair, finding real happiness and why we should never stop learning. It’s time to wise up and listen in, because this and much more is in store.

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

In this episode we sit down with hotelier, hospitality entrepreneur, author and speaker, Chip Conley. Throughout the discussion, Chip addresses many brilliant questions, only to unveil even more astounding answers. Discover how to create psychological safety and collaboration in the workplace, how to use personality assessment tools as well as the practical advantages of implicit trade agreements. Chip also shares many wisdom-filled pointers on dealing with despair, finding real happiness and why we should never stop learning. It’s time to wise up and listen in, because this and much more is in store.

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

]]>cleanNonono00:56:42sriniBest Of: Rewriting the Story of Your Life with Donald Millerhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-rewriting-story-life-donald-miller/
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:00:13 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7674InspiringBack when he was still young and naive, Don Miller fell in love with writing and believed he could make a living at it. Writing a newsgroup newsletter for the local church sparked the flame for a successful writing career and has now spanned many years and several best sellers. Don unpacks many helpful lessons and life experiences such as why pain is key to character transformation, the influence of religion and spirituality on his work or even what causes leaders to become villains. These and many more profound lessons help us understand the method of rewriting the story of your life.

Donald “Don” Miller is a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as “an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle”. You can follow him on twitter @donaldmiller

Back when he was still young and naive, Don Miller fell in love with writing and believed he could make a living at it. Writing a newsgroup newsletter for the local church sparked the flame for a successful writing career and has now spanned many years and several best sellers. Don unpacks many helpful lessons and life experiences such as why pain is key to character transformation, the influence of religion and spirituality on his work or even what causes leaders to become villains. These and many more profound lessons help us understand the method of rewriting the story of your life.

Donald “Don” Miller is a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as “an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle”. You can follow him on twitter @donaldmiller

]]>Back when he was still young and naive, Don Miller fell in love with writing and believed he could make a living at it. Writing a newsgroup newsletter for the local church sparked the flame for a successful writing career and has now spanned many years and several best sellers. Don unpacks many helpful lessons and life experiences such as why pain is key to character transformation, the influence of religion and spirituality on his work or even what causes leaders to become villains. These and many more profound lessons help us understand the method of rewriting the story of your life.

Donald “Don” Miller is a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as “an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle”. You can follow him on twitter @donaldmiller

Back when he was still young and naive, Don Miller fell in love with writing and believed he could make a living at it. Writing a newsgroup newsletter for the local church sparked the flame for a successful writing career and has now spanned many years and several best sellers. Don unpacks many helpful lessons and life experiences such as why pain is key to character transformation, the influence of religion and spirituality on his work or even what causes leaders to become villains. These and many more profound lessons help us understand the method of rewriting the story of your life.

Donald “Don” Miller is a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as “an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle”. You can follow him on twitter @donaldmiller

]]>Back when he was still young and naive, Don Miller fell in love with writing and believed he could make a living at it. Writing a newsgroup newsletter for the local church sparked the flame for a successful writing career and has now spanned many years and several best sellers. Don unpacks many helpful lessons and life experiences such as why pain is key to character transformation, the influence of religion and spirituality on his work or even what causes leaders to become villains. These and many more profound lessons help us understand the method of rewriting the story of your life.

Donald “Don” Miller is a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as “an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle”. You can follow him on twitter @donaldmiller

Back when he was still young and naive, Don Miller fell in love with writing and believed he could make a living at it. Writing a newsgroup newsletter for the local church sparked the flame for a successful writing career and has now spanned many years and several best sellers. Don unpacks many helpful lessons and life experiences such as why pain is key to character transformation, the influence of religion and spirituality on his work or even what causes leaders to become villains. These and many more profound lessons help us understand the method of rewriting the story of your life.

Donald “Don” Miller is a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as “an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle”. You can follow him on twitter @donaldmiller

]]>cleanNonono00:58:32sriniLessons in Life and Leadership from a Cooking School with Makenna Heldhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/lessons-life-leadership-cooking-school-makenna-held/
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 07:00:09 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7658InspiringIn this episode, author, entrepreneur, & leadership coach, Makenna Held talks us through some of her most life changing experiences and lessons learned as well as a deeper look into how she went from working in a tech company to starting many businesses and becoming a leadership coach. Moreover, Makenna uncovers what she learned from being diagnosed with melanoma, how she changed the story of her life and then went on to buying the former summer home of Julia Child, from which she runs a cooking school in the South of France.

To find out more about Makenna and the Courageous Cooking School, visit – Lapeetch.com

In this episode, author, entrepreneur, & leadership coach, Makenna Held talks us through some of her most life changing experiences and lessons learned as well as a deeper look into how she went from working in a tech company to starting many businesses and becoming a leadership coach. Moreover, Makenna uncovers what she learned from being diagnosed with melanoma, how she changed the story of her life and then went on to buying the former summer home of Julia Child, from which she runs a cooking school in the South of France.

To find out more about Makenna and the Courageous Cooking School, visit – Lapeetch.com

]]>In this episode, author, entrepreneur, & leadership coach, Makenna Held talks us through some of her most life changing experiences and lessons learned as well as a deeper look into how she went from working in a tech company to starting many businesses and becoming a leadership coach. Moreover, Makenna uncovers what she learned from being diagnosed with melanoma, how she changed the story of her life and then went on to buying the former summer home of Julia Child, from which she runs a cooking school in the South of France.

To find out more about Makenna and the Courageous Cooking School, visit – Lapeetch.com

In this episode, author, entrepreneur, & leadership coach, Makenna Held talks us through some of her most life changing experiences and lessons learned as well as a deeper look into how she went from working in a tech company to starting many businesses and becoming a leadership coach. Moreover, Makenna uncovers what she learned from being diagnosed with melanoma, how she changed the story of her life and then went on to buying the former summer home of Julia Child, from which she runs a cooking school in the South of France.

To find out more about Makenna and the Courageous Cooking School, visit – Lapeetch.com

]]>In this episode, author, entrepreneur, & leadership coach, Makenna Held talks us through some of her most life changing experiences and lessons learned as well as a deeper look into how she went from working in a tech company to starting many businesses and becoming a leadership coach. Moreover, Makenna uncovers what she learned from being diagnosed with melanoma, how she changed the story of her life and then went on to buying the former summer home of Julia Child, from which she runs a cooking school in the South of France.

To find out more about Makenna and the Courageous Cooking School, visit – Lapeetch.com

In this episode, author, entrepreneur, & leadership coach, Makenna Held talks us through some of her most life changing experiences and lessons learned as well as a deeper look into how she went from working in a tech company to starting many businesses and becoming a leadership coach. Moreover, Makenna uncovers what she learned from being diagnosed with melanoma, how she changed the story of her life and then went on to buying the former summer home of Julia Child, from which she runs a cooking school in the South of France.

To find out more about Makenna and the Courageous Cooking School, visit – Lapeetch.com

]]>cleanNonono00:51:52sriniThe Joy of Genius with Gay Hendrickshttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/joy-genius-gay-hendricks/
Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:00:04 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7627InspiringHow do we break through our upper limits and begin the upward genius spiral? Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence. In this episode, he uncovers the ways of getting passed our most hindering fears, correcting negative thinking, cultivating lasting relationships and ultimately, taking the leap into true creativity.

Gay Hendricks’ latest book can be found here at JoyofGenius.com. Those who order the book today will also receive a free ticket to a live video seminar.

To find out more about Gay Hendricks, visit his website at Hendricks.com

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time… they’re happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen. Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

How do we break through our upper limits and begin the upward genius spiral? Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence. In this episode, he uncovers the ways of getting passed our most hindering fears, correcting negative thinking, cultivating lasting relationships and ultimately, taking the leap into true creativity.

Gay Hendricks’ latest book can be found here at JoyofGenius.com. Those who order the book today will also receive a free ticket to a live video seminar.

To find out more about Gay Hendricks, visit his website at Hendricks.com

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time… they’re happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen. Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

]]>How do we break through our upper limits and begin the upward genius spiral? Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence. In this episode, he uncovers the ways of getting passed our most hindering fears, correcting negative thinking, cultivating lasting relationships and ultimately, taking the leap into true creativity.

Gay Hendricks’ latest book can be found here at JoyofGenius.com. Those who order the book today will also receive a free ticket to a live video seminar.

To find out more about Gay Hendricks, visit his website at Hendricks.com

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time… they’re happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen. Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

How do we break through our upper limits and begin the upward genius spiral? Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence. In this episode, he uncovers the ways of getting passed our most hindering fears, correcting negative thinking, cultivating lasting relationships and ultimately, taking the leap into true creativity.

Gay Hendricks’ latest book can be found here at JoyofGenius.com. Those who order the book today will also receive a free ticket to a live video seminar.

To find out more about Gay Hendricks, visit his website at Hendricks.com

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time… they’re happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen. Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursi]]>

How do we break through our upper limits and begin the upward genius spiral? Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence. In this episode, he uncovers the ways of getting passed our most hindering fears, correcting negative thinking, cultivating lasting relationships and ultimately, taking the leap into true creativity.

Gay Hendricks’ latest book can be found here at JoyofGenius.com. Those who order the book today will also receive a free ticket to a live video seminar.

To find out more about Gay Hendricks, visit his website at Hendricks.com

Sponsors

For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time… they’re happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen. Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

How do we break through our upper limits and begin the upward genius spiral? Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence. In this episode, he uncovers the ways of getting passed our most hindering fears, correcting negative thinking, cultivating lasting relationships and ultimately, taking the leap into true creativity.

Gay Hendricks’ latest book can be found here at JoyofGenius.com. Those who order the book today will also receive a free ticket to a live video seminar.

To find out more about Gay Hendricks, visit his website at Hendricks.com

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Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursi]]>

cleanNonono00:56:32sriniBest of: Turning on Your Superhero Brain with Jim Kwikhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-turning-superhero-brain-jim-kwik/
Fri, 19 Oct 2018 07:00:01 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7621InspiringDo you need help maximizing your brain power or exercising your mind? Then Jim Kwik has what you need! He is the founder of Kwik Learning, and he is an expert in brain performance and has cutting-edge techniques to help you optimize your mind! Jim suffered a brain injury as a child, but he created strategies to help himself learn more efficiently and wants to share those same strategies with you! Take a listen!

Jim Kwik is the founder of Kwik Learning and is an expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning. He’s been a mental coach for top celebrities and CEOs as well as a trainer for leading organizations across the globe.

Do you need help maximizing your brain power or exercising your mind? Then Jim Kwik has what you need! He is the founder of Kwik Learning, and he is an expert in brain performance and has cutting-edge techniques to help you optimize your mind! Jim suffered a brain injury as a child, but he created strategies to help himself learn more efficiently and wants to share those same strategies with you! Take a listen!

Jim Kwik is the founder of Kwik Learning and is an expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning. He’s been a mental coach for top celebrities and CEOs as well as a trainer for leading organizations across the globe.

]]>Do you need help maximizing your brain power or exercising your mind? Then Jim Kwik has what you need! He is the founder of Kwik Learning, and he is an expert in brain performance and has cutting-edge techniques to help you optimize your mind! Jim suffered a brain injury as a child, but he created strategies to help himself learn more efficiently and wants to share those same strategies with you! Take a listen!

Jim Kwik is the founder of Kwik Learning and is an expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning. He’s been a mental coach for top celebrities and CEOs as well as a trainer for leading organizations across the globe.

Do you need help maximizing your brain power or exercising your mind? Then Jim Kwik has what you need! He is the founder of Kwik Learning, and he is an expert in brain performance and has cutting-edge techniques to help you optimize your mind! Jim suffered a brain injury as a child, but he created strategies to help himself learn more efficiently and wants to share those same strategies with you! Take a listen!

Jim Kwik is the founder of Kwik Learning and is an expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning. He’s been a mental coach for top celebrities and CEOs as well as a trainer for leading organizations across the globe.

]]>Do you need help maximizing your brain power or exercising your mind? Then Jim Kwik has what you need! He is the founder of Kwik Learning, and he is an expert in brain performance and has cutting-edge techniques to help you optimize your mind! Jim suffered a brain injury as a child, but he created strategies to help himself learn more efficiently and wants to share those same strategies with you! Take a listen!

Jim Kwik is the founder of Kwik Learning and is an expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning. He’s been a mental coach for top celebrities and CEOs as well as a trainer for leading organizations across the globe.

Do you need help maximizing your brain power or exercising your mind? Then Jim Kwik has what you need! He is the founder of Kwik Learning, and he is an expert in brain performance and has cutting-edge techniques to help you optimize your mind! Jim suffered a brain injury as a child, but he created strategies to help himself learn more efficiently and wants to share those same strategies with you! Take a listen!

Jim Kwik is the founder of Kwik Learning and is an expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning. He’s been a mental coach for top celebrities and CEOs as well as a trainer for leading organizations across the globe.

]]>cleanNonono01:00:52sriniTranslating Expertise into Impact and Wealth with David Bakerhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/translating-expertise-impact-wealth-david-baker/
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:00:42 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7608InspiringToday we get to sit down with author, speaker, and expert entrepreneurial advisor, David Baker. Upon sharing some of his early background, David dives into the many fascinating discoveries he has made on turning expertise into impact and wealth. Join us to find out how he started his own marketing firm, why we shouldn’t be afraid to be different and how to become unignorable. These as well as many more clear and direct, yet caring and thoughtful lessons on being an expert entrepreneur are what David has in-store for us during today’s episode.

David’s most recent book, The Business of Expertise, is a must-read for any entrepreneur – Expertise.is

Today we get to sit down with author, speaker, and expert entrepreneurial advisor, David Baker. Upon sharing some of his early background, David dives into the many fascinating discoveries he has made on turning expertise into impact and wealth. Join us to find out how he started his own marketing firm, why we shouldn’t be afraid to be different and how to become unignorable. These as well as many more clear and direct, yet caring and thoughtful lessons on being an expert entrepreneur are what David has in-store for us during today’s episode.

David’s most recent book, The Business of Expertise, is a must-read for any entrepreneur – Expertise.is

]]>Today we get to sit down with author, speaker, and expert entrepreneurial advisor, David Baker. Upon sharing some of his early background, David dives into the many fascinating discoveries he has made on turning expertise into impact and wealth. Join us to find out how he started his own marketing firm, why we shouldn’t be afraid to be different and how to become unignorable. These as well as many more clear and direct, yet caring and thoughtful lessons on being an expert entrepreneur are what David has in-store for us during today’s episode.

David’s most recent book, The Business of Expertise, is a must-read for any entrepreneur – Expertise.is

Today we get to sit down with author, speaker, and expert entrepreneurial advisor, David Baker. Upon sharing some of his early background, David dives into the many fascinating discoveries he has made on turning expertise into impact and wealth. Join us to find out how he started his own marketing firm, why we shouldn’t be afraid to be different and how to become unignorable. These as well as many more clear and direct, yet caring and thoughtful lessons on being an expert entrepreneur are what David has in-store for us during today’s episode.

David’s most recent book, The Business of Expertise, is a must-read for any entrepreneur – Expertise.is

]]>Today we get to sit down with author, speaker, and expert entrepreneurial advisor, David Baker. Upon sharing some of his early background, David dives into the many fascinating discoveries he has made on turning expertise into impact and wealth. Join us to find out how he started his own marketing firm, why we shouldn’t be afraid to be different and how to become unignorable. These as well as many more clear and direct, yet caring and thoughtful lessons on being an expert entrepreneur are what David has in-store for us during today’s episode.

David’s most recent book, The Business of Expertise, is a must-read for any entrepreneur – Expertise.is

Today we get to sit down with author, speaker, and expert entrepreneurial advisor, David Baker. Upon sharing some of his early background, David dives into the many fascinating discoveries he has made on turning expertise into impact and wealth. Join us to find out how he started his own marketing firm, why we shouldn’t be afraid to be different and how to become unignorable. These as well as many more clear and direct, yet caring and thoughtful lessons on being an expert entrepreneur are what David has in-store for us during today’s episode.

David’s most recent book, The Business of Expertise, is a must-read for any entrepreneur – Expertise.is

]]>cleanNonono00:52:36sriniRedesigning The Future of Education with Gahmya Drummond-Beyhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/redesigning-future-education-gahmya-drummond-bey/
Mon, 15 Oct 2018 07:00:13 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7593InspiringToday we are joined by Gahmya Drummond-Bey, a Global Education Curriculum Designer, TED-Resident and Visionary Educator. Gahmya shares the childhood experiences that helped shape her into the woman she is today. She also dives into the wisdom behind her teachings that enable children and teenagers to overcome many of the hardships that they face today, such as finding a sense of belonging, feeling valuable or even as far as finding a will to live. Pay close attention because what Gahmya has to share with us is truly the lesson of a lifetime.

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Today we are joined by Gahmya Drummond-Bey, a Global Education Curriculum Designer, TED-Resident and Visionary Educator. Gahmya shares the childhood experiences that helped shape her into the woman she is today. She also dives into the wisdom behind her teachings that enable children and teenagers to overcome many of the hardships that they face today, such as finding a sense of belonging, feeling valuable or even as far as finding a will to live. Pay close attention because what Gahmya has to share with us is truly the lesson of a lifetime.

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For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

]]>Today we are joined by Gahmya Drummond-Bey, a Global Education Curriculum Designer, TED-Resident and Visionary Educator. Gahmya shares the childhood experiences that helped shape her into the woman she is today. She also dives into the wisdom behind her teachings that enable children and teenagers to overcome many of the hardships that they face today, such as finding a sense of belonging, feeling valuable or even as far as finding a will to live. Pay close attention because what Gahmya has to share with us is truly the lesson of a lifetime.

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For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

Today we are joined by Gahmya Drummond-Bey, a Global Education Curriculum Designer, TED-Resident and Visionary Educator. Gahmya shares the childhood experiences that helped shape her into the woman she is today. She also dives into the wisdom behind her teachings that enable children and teenagers to overcome many of the hardships that they face today, such as finding a sense of belonging, feeling valuable or even as far as finding a will to live. Pay close attention because what Gahmya has to share with us is truly the lesson of a lifetime.

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For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

]]>Today we are joined by Gahmya Drummond-Bey, a Global Education Curriculum Designer, TED-Resident and Visionary Educator. Gahmya shares the childhood experiences that helped shape her into the woman she is today. She also dives into the wisdom behind her teachings that enable children and teenagers to overcome many of the hardships that they face today, such as finding a sense of belonging, feeling valuable or even as far as finding a will to live. Pay close attention because what Gahmya has to share with us is truly the lesson of a lifetime.

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For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

Today we are joined by Gahmya Drummond-Bey, a Global Education Curriculum Designer, TED-Resident and Visionary Educator. Gahmya shares the childhood experiences that helped shape her into the woman she is today. She also dives into the wisdom behind her teachings that enable children and teenagers to overcome many of the hardships that they face today, such as finding a sense of belonging, feeling valuable or even as far as finding a will to live. Pay close attention because what Gahmya has to share with us is truly the lesson of a lifetime.

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For small business owners, being plugged in and ready to go when an opportunity arrives is crucial to growing your business. Those moments happen all the time. They’re even happening right now. Having a business card that shows how professional you are, right in your pocket and ready to hand out, is the first step to making things happen.

Vistaprint wants you to do something great for your business right now, which is why our listeners will get 500 high-quality, custom business cards starting at $9.99. Just use the code ‘Creative’ at Vistaprint.com

]]>cleanNonono00:53:18sriniBest of: The Psychology of Visionaries with Justine Muskhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-psychology-visionaries-justine-musk/
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 07:00:27 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7545InspiringWant to know how some of the most creative minds in the world today function? Then take a listen to one of our greatest interviews as Justine Musk dives into the psychology of visionaries such as Elon Musk, David Bowie, and Steve Jobs! She discusses how to come out of the shadows in your life and how to find the things in your life that will lead to creativity!

Justine Musk is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel Blood Angel and writes about creativity, self discovery, and culture.

Want to know how some of the most creative minds in the world today function? Then take a listen to one of our greatest interviews as Justine Musk dives into the psychology of visionaries such as Elon Musk, David Bowie, and Steve Jobs! She discusses how to come out of the shadows in your life and how to find the things in your life that will lead to creativity!

Justine Musk is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel Blood Angel and writes about creativity, self discovery, and culture.

]]>Want to know how some of the most creative minds in the world today function? Then take a listen to one of our greatest interviews as Justine Musk dives into the psychology of visionaries such as Elon Musk, David Bowie, and Steve Jobs! She discusses how to come out of the shadows in your life and how to find the things in your life that will lead to creativity!

Justine Musk is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel Blood Angel and writes about creativity, self discovery, and culture.

Want to know how some of the most creative minds in the world today function? Then take a listen to one of our greatest interviews as Justine Musk dives into the psychology of visionaries such as Elon Musk, David Bowie, and Steve Jobs! She discusses how to come out of the shadows in your life and how to find the things in your life that will lead to creativity!

Justine Musk is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel Blood Angel and writes about creativity, self discovery, and culture.

]]>Want to know how some of the most creative minds in the world today function? Then take a listen to one of our greatest interviews as Justine Musk dives into the psychology of visionaries such as Elon Musk, David Bowie, and Steve Jobs! She discusses how to come out of the shadows in your life and how to find the things in your life that will lead to creativity!

Justine Musk is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel Blood Angel and writes about creativity, self discovery, and culture.

Want to know how some of the most creative minds in the world today function? Then take a listen to one of our greatest interviews as Justine Musk dives into the psychology of visionaries such as Elon Musk, David Bowie, and Steve Jobs! She discusses how to come out of the shadows in your life and how to find the things in your life that will lead to creativity!

Justine Musk is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel Blood Angel and writes about creativity, self discovery, and culture.

]]>cleanNonono00:52:59sriniA Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones with James Clearhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/proven-way-build-good-habits-break-bad-ones-james-clear/
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 07:00:15 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7520InspiringIn today’s episode we sit down with James Clear, an author, photographer; and entrepreneur, who is a pioneer of productivity. James’ work largely aims to uncover the scientific truth behind habits and human potential in order for us to live better lives. His research is both profound and easy to understand, allowing us to take the latest scientific research into human behavior and actually use it in our own lives, starting right now.

Here you will find James’ latest book including many other useful resources and downloads – AtomicHabits.com

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In today’s episode we sit down with James Clear, an author, photographer; and entrepreneur, who is a pioneer of productivity. James’ work largely aims to uncover the scientific truth behind habits and human potential in order for us to live better lives. His research is both profound and easy to understand, allowing us to take the latest scientific research into human behavior and actually use it in our own lives, starting right now.

Here you will find James’ latest book including many other useful resources and downloads – AtomicHabits.com

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Find your ideal work‑life balance. With so many distractions and possibilities in your digital life, it’s easy to get scattered. RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive. Get started today by simply visiting RescueTime.com to sign up.

]]>In today’s episode we sit down with James Clear, an author, photographer; and entrepreneur, who is a pioneer of productivity. James’ work largely aims to uncover the scientific truth behind habits and human potential in order for us to live better lives. His research is both profound and easy to understand, allowing us to take the latest scientific research into human behavior and actually use it in our own lives, starting right now.

Here you will find James’ latest book including many other useful resources and downloads – AtomicHabits.com

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Find your ideal work‑life balance. With so many distractions and possibilities in your digital life, it’s easy to get scattered. RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive. Get started today by simply visiting RescueTime.com to sign up.

In today’s episode we sit down with James Clear, an author, photographer; and entrepreneur, who is a pioneer of productivity. James’ work largely aims to uncover the scientific truth behind habits and human potential in order for us to live better lives. His research is both profound and easy to understand, allowing us to take the latest scientific research into human behavior and actually use it in our own lives, starting right now.

Here you will find James’ latest book including many other useful resources and downloads – AtomicHabits.com

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Find your ideal work‑life balance. With so many distractions and possibilities in your digital life, it’s easy to get scattered. RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive. Get started today by simply visiting RescueTime.com to sign up.

]]>In today’s episode we sit down with James Clear, an author, photographer; and entrepreneur, who is a pioneer of productivity. James’ work largely aims to uncover the scientific truth behind habits and human potential in order for us to live better lives. His research is both profound and easy to understand, allowing us to take the latest scientific research into human behavior and actually use it in our own lives, starting right now.

Here you will find James’ latest book including many other useful resources and downloads – AtomicHabits.com

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Find your ideal work‑life balance. With so many distractions and possibilities in your digital life, it’s easy to get scattered. RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive. Get started today by simply visiting RescueTime.com to sign up.

In today’s episode we sit down with James Clear, an author, photographer; and entrepreneur, who is a pioneer of productivity. James’ work largely aims to uncover the scientific truth behind habits and human potential in order for us to live better lives. His research is both profound and easy to understand, allowing us to take the latest scientific research into human behavior and actually use it in our own lives, starting right now.

Here you will find James’ latest book including many other useful resources and downloads – AtomicHabits.com

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Find your ideal work‑life balance. With so many distractions and possibilities in your digital life, it’s easy to get scattered. RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive. Get started today by simply visiting RescueTime.com to sign up.

]]>cleanNonono00:56:35sriniWhy a Tolerance for Discomfort is Essential to Peak Performance with Renita Kalhornhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/tolerance-discomfort-essential-peak-performance-renita-kalhorn/
Mon, 08 Oct 2018 07:00:13 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7503InspiringIn this episode we sit down with Renita Kalhorn, a peak performance expert, executive coach, Juilliard-trained concert pianist and martial arts black belt with an MBA from INSEAD. Renita takes us through a few life-changing moments that helped shape her journey as well as who she is today. Not only this but she also coaches us on many powerful tools that help us reach our peak performance. These include things like shifting from living in survival mode to growth mode, chasing your deepest desires and reaching the peak performance experience that you want to have.

In this episode we sit down with Renita Kalhorn, a peak performance expert, executive coach, Juilliard-trained concert pianist and martial arts black belt with an MBA from INSEAD. Renita takes us through a few life-changing moments that helped shape her journey as well as who she is today. Not only this but she also coaches us on many powerful tools that help us reach our peak performance. These include things like shifting from living in survival mode to growth mode, chasing your deepest desires and reaching the peak performance experience that you want to have.

]]>In this episode we sit down with Renita Kalhorn, a peak performance expert, executive coach, Juilliard-trained concert pianist and martial arts black belt with an MBA from INSEAD. Renita takes us through a few life-changing moments that helped shape her journey as well as who she is today. Not only this but she also coaches us on many powerful tools that help us reach our peak performance. These include things like shifting from living in survival mode to growth mode, chasing your deepest desires and reaching the peak performance experience that you want to have.

In this episode we sit down with Renita Kalhorn, a peak performance expert, executive coach, Juilliard-trained concert pianist and martial arts black belt with an MBA from INSEAD. Renita takes us through a few life-changing moments that helped shape her journey as well as who she is today. Not only this but she also coaches us on many powerful tools that help us reach our peak performance. These include things like shifting from living in survival mode to growth mode, chasing your deepest desires and reaching the peak performance experience that you want to have.

]]>In this episode we sit down with Renita Kalhorn, a peak performance expert, executive coach, Juilliard-trained concert pianist and martial arts black belt with an MBA from INSEAD. Renita takes us through a few life-changing moments that helped shape her journey as well as who she is today. Not only this but she also coaches us on many powerful tools that help us reach our peak performance. These include things like shifting from living in survival mode to growth mode, chasing your deepest desires and reaching the peak performance experience that you want to have.

In this episode we sit down with Renita Kalhorn, a peak performance expert, executive coach, Juilliard-trained concert pianist and martial arts black belt with an MBA from INSEAD. Renita takes us through a few life-changing moments that helped shape her journey as well as who she is today. Not only this but she also coaches us on many powerful tools that help us reach our peak performance. These include things like shifting from living in survival mode to growth mode, chasing your deepest desires and reaching the peak performance experience that you want to have.

]]>cleanNonono00:45:28sriniBest Of: Moving from Scarcity to Abundance with Garret Gundersonhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-moving-scarcity-abundance-garret-gunderson/
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:00:23 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7469InspiringMoney is a byproduct. It’s a byproduct of value creation. Really the biggest way to deliver that value is to create a compelling vision. I think vision is the rarest commodity that there is in the world. When we’re in scarcity it’s hard to have vision. But if you can be more abundant, what you realize is that vision is what drives the most value. – Garrett Gunderson

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Money is a byproduct. It’s a byproduct of value creation. Really the biggest way to deliver that value is to create a compelling vision. I think vision is the rarest commodity that there is in the world. When we’re in scarcity it’s hard to have vision. But if you can be more abundant, what you realize is that vision is what drives the most value. – Garrett Gunderson

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Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

]]>Money is a byproduct. It’s a byproduct of value creation. Really the biggest way to deliver that value is to create a compelling vision. I think vision is the rarest commodity that there is in the world. When we’re in scarcity it’s hard to have vision. But if you can be more abundant, what you realize is that vision is what drives the most value. – Garrett Gunderson

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Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

Money is a byproduct. It’s a byproduct of value creation. Really the biggest way to deliver that value is to create a compelling vision. I think vision is the rarest commodity that there is in the world. When we’re in scarcity it’s hard to have vision. But if you can be more abundant, what you realize is that vision is what drives the most value. – Garrett Gunderson

Sponsors

Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

]]>Money is a byproduct. It’s a byproduct of value creation. Really the biggest way to deliver that value is to create a compelling vision. I think vision is the rarest commodity that there is in the world. When we’re in scarcity it’s hard to have vision. But if you can be more abundant, what you realize is that vision is what drives the most value. – Garrett Gunderson

Sponsors

Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

Money is a byproduct. It’s a byproduct of value creation. Really the biggest way to deliver that value is to create a compelling vision. I think vision is the rarest commodity that there is in the world. When we’re in scarcity it’s hard to have vision. But if you can be more abundant, what you realize is that vision is what drives the most value. – Garrett Gunderson

Sponsors

Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. They aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. They are offering a discount for Unmistakable Creative listeners. Just visit foursigmatic.com/creative and use the promo code ‘creative’ for 15% off.

]]>cleanNonono00:49:48sriniDeveloping Emotional Agility with Susan Davidhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/developing-emotional-agility-susan-david/
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 07:00:05 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7460InspiringThe way we navigate our inner thoughts in our everyday lives is the most important factor of our life success. Susan David is an award-winning psychologist and author of Emotional Agility. In this episode, Susan touches on the powerful process found within her book, which ultimately leads us to accept the existence of our circumstances and allows us to adapt and thrive in life regardless of who we are or whatever we face.

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Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. We aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. We were founded in 2012 and came to the U.S. in 2015.

Another just very quick strategy is that often people will say things like you know I say it.

I am being undermined in this meeting so I'm going to shut down. I am stressed. And when I say I am what makes it sound is as if you are the emotion.

You know I am sad all of me. 100 percent of me is sad. And you can see that in this context and there's no space between you and the emotion because you've made all of you the emotion.

So a very practical way that I teach my clients and I use in organizations is just name for emotion feeling for what it is. It's a thought and it's an emotion or it's a feeling it's not a directive to action you know who's in charge here that's been caught with a thought.

So instead of saying I am sad I'm noticing the feeling that I'm sad instead of I am stressed.

I'm noticing the feeling that I'm stressed. It's so subtle that what you're doing by prefixing I am noticing the feeling I'm noticing the thought you're naming them for what they are is you creating critical space between you and that emotional experience.

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Susan welcome to the unmistakable creative thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Hi thanks for having me here.

It is my pleasure to have you here so I came across your work by both your way of your TED talk as well as your book Emotional agility all of which we all get into but I want to start by asking you where in the world did you grow up and what impact did that end up having on the choices that you've made with your life and your career.

Well where in the world I grew up I grew up in South Africa so I grew up as a white person living in the white communities of apartheid South Africa. And that experience absolutely impacted on my career and my life in general. So from a very early age I recognised that I was essentially growing up in a country that legislated discrimination and hate and also that legislated denial you know the denial of the reality of people's experience and they paid. And then when I was around 16 years old my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. And what I'd been experiencing out in the world very much came into stark relief with the experience of dealing with a loss that was profound. You know the loss of a parent and what I really noticed is that so often in our society in our community there is a denial of often the most essential part of us. A friend of mine who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer said to me you know everyone keeps telling me to be positive to be positive and she said what that does is it stops me from being authentic in my experience in being able to have real conversations and it really cuts off its servers and the ability to traverse what is painful in a way that feels authentic and so so much more work has focused on a single question which is what does it take internally in the way we deal with our thoughts and emotions and our stories that help us to thrive in an increasingly complex and fraught world and that we have these narratives in society you know just be positive. Good vibes only. It'll be okay and I'm really curious about how those ideas might actually either facilitate or undermine our resilience and our wellbeing. So that's the focus of my work and really influenced in many ways by my background as well as my childhood.

So you grew up in apartheid South Africa. You're the second person that I've interviewed 20 billion. So it was a dear friend who grew up there as well. And it's interesting because he grew up there as a minority. You grew up there as a white person. I wonder when you look at America today. I feel like I've heard Trevor Noah talk about this as well as somebody who grew up in an apartheid South Africa. Do you feel like you're watching history repeat itself. And do you have anything that really concerns you about sort of the racial divide we've been seeing over the last several years.

You know one of the things that I speak about in my TED talk is this idea that you know fundamentally when you live in a society in which rules or systemically the narrative in society discriminates or add delegitimizes some people versus others.

There's often this experience that really this is about denial it's denial of humanity it's denial of common humanity its denial of the ability to access compassion.

And you know what's really fascinating about that experience is that that kind of denial is unsustainable it's unsustainable for us as individuals for our communities for our world.

And as we watch the ice caps melt for you know the planet. And I think that there is a and this this there's this kind of really. Interesting and sad phenomenon for us as human beings which even when you are supposedly the kind of group in power that that when you dehumanize the other you simultaneously dehumanize yourself because if you want to extend equity and if you can't extend compassion then what happens simultaneously is that you dehumanize and you take away your legitimate needful compassion and humanity.

And really what I what I do see what I do feel is yes history repeating and also just a sense of enormous sadness at the pain that I think is so real for so many people.

You lost a parent at a really really early age. I can't even fathom going through something like that just the thought of losing my parents makes me really really sad. And I spent a lot of time with them now more than I ever have before I go and see them every weekend because they're an hour away and then I think with age I've become much more aware of the fact that wait a minute this isn't going to be an option forever and I should really embrace it. What I wonder is how your making meaning of that experience has changed with age when you looked at it when you were 15 versus now. When I

Was 15 when my dad died and I remember very clearly my mother coming in basically telling me to go and say goodbye to my father. And I walked into his room and I remember that experience of knowing that it was the last time that I would see him. And you know we live in a society that really values this idea that I'm okay you know that that you will be okay just be positive in organizations. We see how it's just getting on with things just getting on with everything almost regardless of what our experiences. And I certainly as a 15 year old said that people would ask me how I was doing and I would say I'm okay. And you know I continued trying to put on a very brave face to the world.

And I think what has happened both as a function of age and experience and a function of my work is that way of being is unsustainable in organizations.

We very often push emotion aside will say things to people like you on the bus of the bus you either with us or against us you're either going to support the change or you're not going to support the change and offer what we try to do as we try to push aside difficult emotions. And yet the only way through difficult emotions is through it.

It's not about pushing them aside and it's not about pretending it's actually about being able to integrate what has happened in your life with who you are now as opposed to have a separate story. And I think for me what's happened over time is I have been able to really get up close with the pain of loss but I think also what's come with that is a very very strong sense of resilience in myself and a feeling that in some way and I remember my mother when my dad was dying my mother saying to me one day you'll look back at this experience and you will realize in some way that you are lucky. And I remember being so angry with her. What day you tell me that I'm lucky that my father is dying and she said to me I don't mean it in that way. But when you've gone through a difficult experience. Often what it does is it allows you to extend your empathy it allows you to understand what others are going through. It allows you to strengthen parts of yourself. And I recognize years later that she was true.

She was right. So how that changed. I think it changed in my experience. So I you know the time passing definitely changed the experience but I think there's also the recognition that we as a society do not deal well with grief stress anxiety we tend to Trapper's these emotions aside and often and pushing them aside we actually make ourselves weaker.

There's enormous strength in being able to show up to our difficult emotional experiences and to try to understand them and try try to understand the value that sits beneath them not to a no washing way but in a way that is Schou and and authentic.

Do you think the emotional resilience is only something that can be cultivated by having gone through a difficult experience because it seems to me that if you don't have something that forces resilience on you would be hard to develop.

Well they many people who go through difficult experiences and not everyone comes out of those difficult experiences more resilient. So we definitely can look at the psychological research and start saying you know what are the things that allow people to leave experiences more resilient versus less resilient. And then we can say you know what if you've never gone through a difficult experience before. Is it possible for you to be resilient. And again we find the same the commonality of factors the same essence in terms of how people with themselves and with their emotions and those those whole components become predictors of resilience. So in short answer to the question I think that difficult experience has definitely test our resilience. But I also believe when we look at the psychological research that they are ways of being that prepare us for difficult experiences and ways of being that allow us to get through difficult experiences that actually end up being the foundational aspects of resilience and you know those we can explore. But I don't think that going through a difficult experience is a necessity for resilience.

We'll talk about the foundational aspects of what leads to resilience. But I want to go into something that you talked about in the book and I am really pleased that you brought up this whole sort of be happy that self-help narrative. I mean you know I write some of this stuff I produce a lot of these conversations on the unmistakable creative where people talk about this about positivity we've had everybody from happiness researchers to performance psychologists. And there were a couple of lines in the book that really stood out to me. You said striving to be perfectly happy you will only set you up for frustration and failure and then you also said a growing body of research shows that images emotional rigidity getting hooked by thoughts and behaviors that don't serve as is associated with a range of psychological ills including depression and anxiety. Meanwhile emotional agility being flexible with your thoughts and feelings so that you can respond optimally to everyday situations is the key to well-being and success and I guess what I wonder is how do you not get hooked by thoughts feelings and behaviors that don't serve you when you're going through something difficult. Because I think that that's what happens to so many of us.

We go into this rumination of things yes physically do everything live in a society that tells us to be happy you know that being happy is our right.

And what the research is showing me is that when people become overly focused on being happy you know when you start seeing this idea of just be positive this is going to be the best Thanksgiving ever. It's going to be the happiest experience that I've ever had. And we stopped chasing goals around happiness.

What's super interesting is you find that those people become more and more unhappy over time. So there's almost this idea that expectations around happiness stops us from actually cultivating levels of authentic happiness. So I think that's the first way in which we can become rigid. But of course there are other ways and you allude to this in your in the quotation that you describe from the book which is that very often when we go through difficult experiences and it could be a difficult experience that is like you know a death or it could be a job loss or it could be a difficult experience that's even in a day to day life. You know I'm stressed or I'm really struggling to get this business up and going and so often what we do is we have thoughts I thought might be and I'm not good enough or I'm a fraud. Or it might be an emotion something knock I'm stressed I'm anxious I'm sad. Or it might even be a story a story. Sometimes our stories were written on the mental chalkboards in Grade 3 about who we are whether we are good enough what kind of relationships we deserve whether it be creative whether we not creative good at bad not good at math.

And so often what we do is we have these thoughts emotions stories and there's actually nothing wrong with having them you know if you look at the research we know that on average every single human being has around 16000 unspoken thoughts every single day. You know there's nothing wrong with a thought in of itself. But what starts to happen is we become cooked or emotionally rigid hooked is the language that I use in my book where we start giving these thoughts emotions stories more space in our lives than they should have. So an example might be you said yourself. You know I'm worried that I'm not going to get that job. So I'm just not going to put in my resume or I am concerned that this business that I want to start is not going to be successful so I'm just not even going to give it a go. Now what you start doing there is you starting to treat these thoughts emotions stories as fact rather than data.

So an example might be you know last week I was giving a presentation to a group of 4000 individuals and it happened that that particular day was my birthday. And I remember leaving the house and saying to my son that I was going away for the day and my son saying to me you know this is your second birthday that you've been away. And so I then stopped having the thought which is I'm a bad mom and I start having this emotion which is I feel guilty.

Now that's actually a really healthy thought and emotion is nothing wrong with that. You know Charles Darwin described these ideas that these emotions are. Taught to us as human beings helping us to better understand ourselves helping us to better understand what's important and to shape our lives accordingly. So there's nothing wrong with that old toy motion what becomes rigid is when you start treating the thought or emotion as fact. I had the thought that I'm a bad mom. They fry am a bad mom. You stop beating yourself up. You start treating yourself badly. You start lacking compassion in yourself. So really the whole idea behind emotional rigidity is that to use this wonderful Victor Frankl language he speaks about this idea that between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to choose. And it's in that choice that lies of growth and freedom. When you're hooked and emotionally rigid there is no space between stimulus and response. I had the thought that I'm a bad mom therefore I am a bad mom. I'm being undermined in this meeting some are going to shut down my papa starting in on the finances so I'm going to leave the room. What are we not bringing into the world at that point it is other parts of ourselves our values who we want to be. What is important to us. We are allowing our thoughts and emotions to call the shots so Reverend that your mother.

I wonder having been exposed to this body of knowledge and having had your work sent around this research what impact it had on the kind of parent your being and what would you tell parents who are listening.

Well it's had a huge impact on the kind of parent that I am.

None of us is a perfect parent and I think that the first thing that my work teaches me is that compassion is really important. Self compassion is really important. The recognition that all of us are doing the best we can with who we are with what we've got and with the resources that we've been given in life.

And so you know often when I'm upset of feeling up got a lot on that I'm struggling through it.

And especially when it comes to parenting. I think being able to extend compassion to ourselves is really important and also being able to extend compassion to our children is really important. There's a myth that compassion is about being weak Naisi or letting yourself or others off the hook but actually when we are compassionate we create a safe space in which we can experiment and fail in which we can try and we may not succeed but it allows that gives the permission to try. And this applies of course not just to parenting but it also applies to the workplace. We often move into the workplace with such a strong sense of expectation of others. This is tightness and this and focus on task and often what we forget is that we and others are doing the best we can and that if we can let go of the tightness and be compassionate and it doesn't mean we let go of expectation but that's a very powerful case for one of us.

So it's impacted on my parenting in that way. And another very practical way that this research has impact on my parenting is that we do grow up in a society that tells us that positive emotions are all that count and. Or not all that camp. But the most important and that often what we do inadvertently is when our children come home and they are upset about something or no one would play with me today or they worried often with very good intentions as parents we try to make things ok so don't worry I'll play with you. Also the main goals parents not organize a play date and what we are inadvertently signaling toward children is that some emotions are good. In other words happiness is good and some emotions are bad. We need to get rid of those difficult emotions. And really what the research shows but what that teaches our children is that emotions are good or bad. Some emotions to be fit. And it doesn't actually allow our children to develop the skills that are necessary in dealing with the world as it is in which pain and heartache are built into our contract with the world.

And so one thing that I just can't think of in terms of my own parenting is when my child is upset about something is showing up to that upset. There's this beautiful phrase in South Africa Savu Boehner and so on and literally translated means I see you. And by seeing you I bring you into being and what I really try to do with my children imperfectly but I try to do is when they're feeling upset or sad about something is not to push them away or to jolly it along and say you know everything's fine. But to really try to kind of show up to how it is that they're feeling in that moment.

So earlier you mentioned this capacity that we all have to pause between stimulus and response which I've heard from other people and I think that every one of us understands that logically. Yet I think in practice it becomes harder especially when somebody does something that makes as bad or something that upsets us. What in your research have you found is the key to develop that capacity to pause between stimulus and response.

Well the first thing is a lot of times people will say Oh it's very difficult to pause because this thing has caught me off guard. But actually when you dig a little bit deeper what comes out is that a lot of the times that we struggle to pause between stimulus and response all of our pets and ways of being in the world. So we might find that there is a particular individual at work who always evokes a particular reaction in us or they might be a situation way. It's specifically where our competence is being questioned. That leads us to a particular level of defensiveness. Or we may be very patterned and autopilot and coming home from work and bringing our cell to the table. And again there's no space between stimulus and response because you know we just doing things in a way that is autopilot as opposed to where the traffic saw that is so I think this idea that you know that our emotions catch us off guard is is actually yes true on the face of it.

But often we think a little bit deeper about the things that trip us up time and time and time again. It is patent and therefore it is predictable. But that coupled with other things that I think are critical in terms of being able to create space between stimulus and response.

The first is to do away with the idea that there are good emotions and bad emotions that I'm allowed to be happy and I'm allowed to just get on with it. But I'm not allowed to be anxious and I'm not allowed to be sad and I'm not allowed to be angry and I'm not allowed to be stressed. And because when you treat some emotions is good and some emotions is bad. What's this means is that you are cutting yourself off from a whole warning signal that we have as human beings. You know I'm connected with my sadness what of a stock recognizing is that my sadness is increasing in relation to particular situation and some kind of tracking my sadness. And it's not taking me by surprise because I'm more authentically connected with the reality of my human experience. So it really kind of doing away with this idea that the good emotions and bad emotions is a fundamental building block to being able to create pause between stimulus and response.

And another just very quick strategy is that often people will say things like you know I am say.

I am being undermined in this meeting so I'm going to shut down. I am stressed and when I say I am. What makes that sound is as if you are the emotion.

You know I am sad all of me. One hundred percent of me is sad and you can see that in this context and there's no space between you and the emotion because you've made all of you the emotion.

So a very practical way that I teach my clients and I use in organizations is just name the thought emotion feeling for what it is. It's a thought and it's an emotion or it's a feeling. It's not a directive to action. You know who's in charge here. Think with a thought.

So instead of saying I am sad I'm noticing the feeling that I'm sad instead of I am stressed I'm noticing the feeling that I'm stressed.

It's so subtle that what you doing that prefixing I am noticing the feeling I'm not seeing the thought you're naming them for what they are is you creating critical space between you and that emotional experience. While

You might ask you one other question on pattern responses and I'll give you an example from my own life because I really wonder how to change a pattern responses. I have a pattern response on it. I've noticed this throughout my life. If I enter a stressful situation whether that be something related to my finances I find out the money is not going to come in. That's not going to come in whether that be really a relationship or somebody breaks up with me or something else. I have had this tendency to say OK I'm going to go smoke a cigarette. And I'm an avid surfer and avid snowboarder. I lead a fairly healthy lifestyle yet I've seen that pattern response over and over throughout my life. I wonder how do you break something like that.

So it sounds like what you've done is you've you've kind of developed a set do you actually go and spike the cigarette.

Well what's funny is that you would never find me smoking a cigarette in any other situation. I lead a very healthy lifestyle I go across but but when that happens or I'm I'm stressed then I will go and buy like a cigar or something but that you know I think what I'm trying to do is numb whatever it is that I'm feeling.

So yeah I mean I think that they are two aspects to this. The first is that often when we go through difficult experiences we can and we see this across human beings. We can start engaging in short term emotional avoidance strategies. So alcohol is one of them. Excessive sleep is another. Drinking smoking. These are examples. And these nights samples of emotion regulation is strategies that are less effective and less healthy. Now of course the opposite side people can use emotion regulation strategies that are more effective and more healthy so going for a run listening to music and connecting with others for social support. These are also just short term emotional regulation strategies but they're more healthy emotion regulation strategies. So I think you know they are helpful ways to think about this. The first is that you know what you're doing here is you are engaging in a as you recognize short term unhealthy emotion regulation strategy and what kind of science of habit change would say to you it is that the way to break that habit because it's become a habit that's evoked by a particularly emotional response is to switch is to consciously switch it out. So you know you know that the next time you're in this kind of stressful situation that you may automatically want to do the great and what the research on habit change tells us is that a lot of times when people are trying to change habits what they do is they think about positive visualization.

So they might say you know I'm trying to get fit and healthy I'm going to imagine myself crossing the finishing line and you know I'm trying to be healthy.

I'm going to imagine myself all and and you know toned and buffed and a lot of the signs of change tells us that while people often do these imaginings of things going Bright. One of the most effective ways to change habits is thinking about the obstacles. So the obstacle is you might be trying to be fit and healthy but when you are stressed you automatically draw on this particular thing which is the cigarette and that imagining obstacles and actually understanding obstacles and making conscious choices about how you might replace that cigarette with something else in a very systematic thought out and intentional way is is often the way to start learning that habit. So you know for instance we know this when people have good eating disorders and they you know a typical example of this is in cases of balmier when someone is tempted to binge and purge for instance we know from the psychological research actually what we want to do is in that trigger they need to find an alternative action so it might be that they go for a walk. It might be that they take a bath but they are specifically choosing something that they use to replace the one with the other. The longer term to this is is less about the cigarette you know the longer term to this is also about being able to recognise that when you're feeling stressed.

Block What is it that's actually going on for you when you feeling sad. What is it that's going on for you. What are some of the values that the loss of the relationship might be connecting with King your way from that's important to you. And so it really kind of coming face to face with those things is what helps the situations in the longer term. So we've got the short term emotion regulation strategy but then we've got the longer term stuff that's the real work around any aspect of human change.

So speaking of ADF whatever you chose this quote in particular I think is very very resonant with me right now particularly legis wrote a piece where I'm going actually had this quote to it. I just realized I needed to say one of the greatest paradoxes of human experience is that we can't change ourselves or our circumstances until we accept what exists right now. This means giving permission for the world to be as it is because it's only when we stop trying to control the universe that we make peace with it. And yet. That flies in the face of all of our cultural narratives around striving and hustling and grinding and 60 hour work weeks. How do you balance that paradox with actually doing the things that are necessary to accomplish your goals.

So acceptance is not passive resignation it's not acceptance is not passive resignation it's not saying oh my goodness this is just the world as it is there's nothing I can do.

Acceptance is the recognition that this is the world as it is and I'll I'll give you an example of this when my father died a huge part of me did not want to accept it. And so when you start entering into a space of lack of acceptance what you do is you struggle with your emotions. You struggle with the grief. Why am I feeling so sad. Like I shouldn't be grieving. People are telling me that everything's gonna be ok. There's there's so much of the way we live in the world that really banishes these difficult emotions and difficult experiences. And so what we learned a being is we learned being human beings feeling that we can fix everything. You know we don't lack the walls in our house we can paint them with our knockout car we can buy new cars. We don't like herself. We can buy new Cellcom and we start thinking that when we have difficult thoughts emotions we can just fix them. Banished them do away with and replaced them with positive and everything will be OK. But actually paradoxically what we know from the psychological research is that. Acceptance of our most difficult emotions is the cornerstone to resilience to thriving and to real change.

So you know an example of this is someone who is seeking a relationship. And this this sometimes this hustling that can go on. You use that word earlier. That that is kind of doing a lot of activity in the world. But there's a real power in actually showing up to the loneliness of the experience like showing up to how a learned one might feel and and why that loneliness is difficult. And so it's not a passive resignation it's about kind of being able to name your experience show up to it understand that that loneliness is a signal that intimacy and belonging are really important that the values that are powerful beneath us. And. When we are able to show up to the reality of our experience and we label that experience accurately and we understand the values that they experience pointed. That is what helps us to move forward. And I'll give you just a very simple example of what this can look like. You know I often in my work will hear people say things like you know I'm unhappy at my job. But at least I've got a job. And so what they don't is they're constantly pushing aside those emotional signals and five years later the person still saying I'm unhappy in my job.

But at least I've got a job. But now five years have passed and they have completely lost their time that they could have been shaping themselves more effectively shaping their careers and their skills and so on and so the pressure of acceptance is really the power of being able to show up to the reality of my experience. I am in a job in which I feel stuck. I'm in a job in which there's limited growth and limited opportunity. This is my reality. When we are able to accept when we are able to say what is the fear that's underneath that. What is the motion. That's. In that experience. And when we are able to start saying what are the values that are not being served in my current job at mapi values of growth security or collaboration. For instance we start getting a bigger picture about how we need to move forward in order to make the change. So really this idea of acceptance is not passive resignation. It's about showing up courageously to a job an experience a relationship or a situation and say this is luck.

The thing is when you can get your arms around what the thing is you can start moving forward productively.

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So I had an experience recently that I think was really indicative of exactly what you're talking about. I had a new book Come out in August and I was really stressed about the fact that it wasn't selling as many copies as I wanted it to. I was going slower and I remember this moment. This was a few days ago where I thought to myself OK that's it I'm going to surrender.

I've got to make my peace with the fact that this isn't going to become a New York Times best seller that we're not going to sell 10000 copies in a week. And I should be ok with it. And I saw that we had moved 40 to 50 copies over the course of the previous week and my in that moment of surrender suddenly I had this moment of clarity where I said OK what can we do instead of trying to reach this exorbitant goal of tens of thousands of copies.

What else could we be doing to continue that 40 to 50 copies a week and a half hour from editor that we had crossed the 1000 copy threshold. And I realized that if I had been so rigid about that expectation of bestseller 10000 copies I would have completely overlooked how much I had to appreciate getting to that thousand Cauvery threshold which apparently most books don't even hit.

I think that's a really really powerful example. And what it also speaks to is that when you are stressed in that way you know we spoke clearly about being cooked being driven by your thoughts emotions and stories. There's no space you know what you can start seeing and that expense. I'm straight this is terrible this is awful this is a failure. There's this you know. And so that can drive this whole narrative. Whereas if you are able to say

I'm really disappointed because I put so much effort into this thing and it hasn't unfolded in the way that I'd hoped. And you can name it and you couldn't own up to it and you could start saying now what is the venue that is beneath us disappointment that then he might be that I'm not getting the message out to particular people or the value might be that you know and wanting to build my platform in very particular ways. And I'm kind of struggling to do that. And you start actually connecting in with the values that underlie this thing that humanity be calling stress what it allows you to then do is have clarity and take out that piece of paper and say OK. What can I do in this situation and what you are starting to do is you study to move yourself from a struggle that lies in the face of confusion and emotion into a struggle that is directed by us.

Wow.

And the character that's directed by bandies.

So you talked a bit. I think this is really a fitting segue to what I want to talk about next. You mentioned this idea that self acceptance usually takes a big hit when we start making comparisons and you say looking to someone whose accomplishments are just a notch or two above you your own might be inspiring but judging yourself against a true superstar or a once in a lifetime genius can be devastating. That's in part because we tend to focus on the end result rather than what it takes to get there. And what's amazing is that we live in a world where this happens 24 hours a day because if you log into Facebook and look through a news feed there's always somebody who has accomplished something far more impressive or amazing than you have. And so I wonder what does your research show about the role that social media is playing in amplifying this sense of comparison that we have. And what are the things that we can do to not get caught up in this sense of comparison but also look to people who are role models who do inspire. So I'll give you all finished this stuff with one other example. I had a listener once who emailed me and told me I can't keep listening to your show because these stories are with amazing people and it's actually making me feel worse about myself. And I actually understood why he said that yeah.

Yeah. Well it's you know it's it's fascinating. Before we even get to social media what we know is that one of the most toxic ways we can be in the world is when we. Constantly compare ourselves to others. So. So social comparison has an enormous level of toxicity to us as human beings psychologically whether that's through media whether it's through looking at you know people in magazines and so on. So. We as human beings are thirsty when we compare there's this toxic experience but also end up being subjected to what in psychological science is called social contagion and social contagion Israeli the idea that not only are we comparing ourselves to others but we are also trying to acquire and behave like others without even realizing that we are trying to do it. So I'll give an example. Imagine you are trying to lose weight and you go on an airplane and your seat partner buys candy. What the research shows is that you are 70 percent more likely to buy candy as well. You don't even need to know the part that but you're more likely to buy candy. If someone in your social network gets divorced or puts on weight you are more likely to get divorced to put on weight.

And while this might sound bizarre we've all had that experience you know you got dinner one person orders dessert. We all ordered dessert without even realizing you know that we drink it. If one person brings a cell phone into a meeting we all start taking out our cell phone. So what starts to happen is you've got this social comparison that human beings often engage in. And then you've got this social contagion which is the picking up on the emotions and the behaviors of others in a way that can often take us away from our venues away from what's important. Now let's bring social media into into the mix. Imagine you've got someone who you consider to be a complete loser in fifth grade and that person is now driving around in a Ferrari wi with social media on now. Now no longer comparing ourselves to this one individual. We comparing ourselves to every single person who has some level of success. And so it becomes amplified. How do we protect ourselves against this. There are a couple of things that we know to be important. The first is

Having a sense of who we are our values what we stand for what is important. Front of mind. We know for instance that when people have grown up in situations where they say they're told Oh you know you're never going to make it to college. People like us don't make it to college. That person tries and tries and tries and finally makes it to college and when they experience their first stress for instance they take a test and they fail. They're much more likely to drop out. But if those people have spent 10 minutes thinking about what am I values here who am I trying to be. Why am I studying this particular thing at college. It protects them. So the first thing is that values are often seen as being abstract wishy washy ideas but we know that they are powerful. Knowing who you are what you stand for what's important can protect you from so many of the ill effects of social comparison and of social contagion. You know about trying to be in the situation. Yes everyone else is stressed in the workplace but how do I want to bring myself to the meeting or to my client. Yes. Other people are selling more copies of books than I am. But what is the value that I have to offer.

What is my unique message and how can our work to bring my unique message to the world regardless of what other people are. And again to your point earlier that's not saying that you may not say well you know what is this individual doing strategically that might be helpful.

I think that you know that that can be incredibly It's a results that can be incredibly helpful to learn from others. But what starts to happen is when you start to engage with ideas of how. It's not about the work it's not about what I've got to do it's not about these activities but actually it's a reflection of me how I'm not good enough. I'm not smart enough I'm not you know we take these things that are

Functions very often of the Arment and we stopped making them very personal and feeling really bad about ourselves. And that's when social comparison can become the most toxic.

Wow. So you mentioned values and this is one the line that in the book really really struck me because it felt like so much of my life has been dictated by a very similar message so identifying what you value and acting on it is not always easy. We're constantly bombarded with messages from culture advertisers our upbringing our religious training and families friends and peers about what is important and what makes us worthy. And I think that particularly in immigrant cultures we get very very clear messages on what makes us worthy and what's important. And I wonder how you get back to a place of acting on your own values when your social programming is so deeply embedded in who you are.

Yeah and I think this is a very common expense for people you know this is in the psychological research on values we call its clients clients is the idea that our parents might tell us what is important and so we grow up with this idea that okay that's the thing that's important and then we start expensing a sense of dissonance. You know you feel like you're not living your own life or you feel like you would do something else you would embark on a different Korea.

If it weren't for that programming that told you that if you engage in that career that you somehow a failure. And so we can often have these these venues that can feel like our own simply because they are so comfortable and yet they are really subdomains the reflections of what we've been told to believe. And so I think this is way thirsty again moving into discomfort is so important.

If you just shun those so-called difficult emotions and you say well I'm experiencing dissonance but I'm just going to ignore it and I'm going to keep on doing what I'm doing you know getting through with this particular thing I've been told represents value in my career or in my life. And then you are not being agile. You're not being effective you simply are. Using rule based thinking that developed from when you were a little child and so this is way starting to inquire starting to say unity Atheel dissonance I feel discomfort.

I feel sadness and I'm not pushing it aside but rather trying to hold it name it enabled it and to stand in it and start to help you to surface. What are your values. What is something that you would rather than what has been told to you. So you know I use that example earlier of someone saying you know. I'm in a job that at least I've got a job so I'm just going to push aside these difficult emotions. Imagine the enormous power of someone saying I met in this job. This is the job that I've been told by my parents by society is the right thing for me to be doing better. What I'm feeling here is sadness and that sadness represents a loss of growth or a loss of opportunity or a lack of creativity or a lack of communion and community or whatever it is that that sadness signals to the person. And so what you recognize is that beneath that most difficulty emotion is a signpost of something that you care about. That sign is often a signpost to your Benyus to your true values. And so what. Start getting here. Is this really powerful way of using of mining. Almos difficult emotions in a way that helps us to understand who we are as people. What's important to us and to makeshifts accordingly and to also recognize that you know a value that you might have had when you were 20 years old may no longer be your 10 years. You know your values evolve and change and there's such power in being able to embrace the freedom that comes with the recognition that as a human being everything else in the world changes. So why wouldn't we as people change. Why wouldn't Tao then use change. Of course they can change of course they can evolve.

So from everything that you and I have talked about my senses that this ability to have emotional agility is not a tactic but it's a practice and something that you have to keep working on an ongoing basis.

Yeah I think that they're both practice aspects of emotional agility the practice aspects are about kind of do away with the idea that there's a good or bad emotion. The practice aspects are about being able to recognize that there's enormous power in the space have to confront the practice aspects are about being able to create space between you and what you do so that your values can come to the fore.

And then also very tactical aspects to it. So in the book for instance I talk about making values aligned tweaks or values align changes to your life. So an example might be you know the example that I gave earlier which is you might have a. Habit that you're engaging which is you know your unhealthy unwanted cigar. Every time you are upset as an example or not every stop it you know when you draw to that end there's a science of habit change that shows that technically you can stop making very different habits. I'll give you an example. Imagine you trying to make a values aligned habits change to your health. And imagine you already ate breakfast every morning and your values and habits change is that you try to eat more fruits as well. As technical aspect is something that we call piggybacking and piggybacking is where you take a habit that already exists in your day to day life. You're ready. Eat your cereal. And you. Now at this new values aligned habit to the thing that already exist you are adding your fruit to your cereal.

Now that's a very small example but that's tactical in that we've all many many things that we do routinely every day but we can start making very small shifts to those habits to elevate our values into our lives so that we started to do more of what is meaningful to us and that is very practical.

Well what this has been truly truly amazing I think to me this was one of those conversations that I and I'm guessing other people will have to go back and play at least 15 times to get everything you've packed into it.

So I have one final question for you which is how we control over Oliver interviews of the mystical of what do you think it is that makes somebody or something unmistakable I think what makes someone a mistake will is an individual who knows who they are and what they stand for and are able to try every day to make moves towards Smith's moves towards those values. I think you know that is the hallmark of authenticity. It's the hallmark of self ownership. It's the hallmark of autonomy and it's the whole lack of growth and you know for me that if you said to me like What is success.

Success is not about living someone else's life or matching up to someone else. It's about an understanding at a core level of who you are and who you want to be in the world. And I don't think there's anything more powerful or anything more creative than being self authoring in that way.

Well I think that makes a really fit again to our conversation where can people find out more about your your work and everything you're up to.

So thank you. Thank you so much sir. Three aspects that I think might be helpful to people. The first is my TED talk at the gift and power of emotional courage. The second is that I've got an online quiz that about 100000 people have taken now and it's free. Very quick quiz that focuses on emotional agility and you get a report that comes with that and that people can find on my website. Susan David dot come forward slash learn our email already with a South African accent. And the third is the book Emotional gelati fantastic.

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Another just very quick strategy is that often people will say things like you know I say it.

I am being undermined in this meeting so I'm going to shut down. I am stressed. And when I say I am what makes it sound is as if you are the emotion.

You know I am sad all of me. 100 percent of me is sad. And you can see that in this context and there's no space between you and the emotion because you've made all of you the emotion.

So a very practical way that I teach my clients and I use in organizations is just name for emotion feeling for what it is. It's a thought and it's an emotion or it's a feeling it's not a directive to action you know who's in charge here that's been caught with a thought.

So instead of saying I am sad I'm noticing the feeling that I'm sad instead of I am stressed.

I'm noticing the feeling that I'm stressed. It's so subtle that what you're doing by prefixing I am noticing the feeling I'm noticing the thought you're naming them for what they are is you creating critical space between you and that emotional experience.

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Susan welcome to the unmistakable creative thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Hi thanks for having me here.

It is my pleasure to have you here so I came across your work by both your way of your TED talk as well as your book Emotional agility all of which we all get into but I want to start by asking you where in the world did you grow up and what impact did that end up having on the choices that you've made with your life and your career.

Well where in the world I grew up I grew up in South Africa so I grew up as a white person living in the white communities of apartheid South Africa. And that experience absolutely impacted on my career and my life in general. So from a very early age I recognised that I was essentially growing up in a country that legislated discrimination and hate and also that legislated denial you know the denial of the reality of people's experience and they paid. And then when I was around 16 years old my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. And what I'd been experiencing out in the world very much came into stark relief with the experience of dealing with a loss that was profound. You know the loss of a parent and what I really noticed is that so often in our society in our community there is a denial of often the most essential part of us. A friend of mine who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer said to me you know everyone keeps telling me to be positive to be positive and she said what that does is it stops me from being authentic in my experience in being able to have real conversations and it really cuts off its servers and the ability to traverse what is painful in a way that feels authentic and so so much more work has focused on a single question which is what does it take internally in the way we deal with our thoughts and emotions and our stories that help us to thrive in an increasingly complex and fraught world and that we have these narratives in society you know just be positive. Good vibes only. It'll be okay and I'm really curious about how those ideas might actually either facilitate or undermine our resilience and our wellbeing. So that's the focus of my work and really influenced in many ways by my background as well as my childhood.

So you grew up in apartheid South Africa. You're the second person that I've interviewed 20 billion. So it was a dear friend who grew up there as well. And it's interesting because he grew up there as a minority. You grew up there as a white person. I wonder when you look at America today. I feel like I've heard Trevor Noah talk about this as well as somebody who grew up in an apartheid South Africa. Do you feel like you're watching history repeat itself. And do you have anything that really concerns you about sort of the racial divide we've been seeing over the last several years.

You know one of the things that I speak about in my TED talk is this idea that you know fundamentally when you live in a society in which rules or systemically the narrative in society discriminates or add delegitimizes some people versus others.

There's often this experience that really this is about denial it's denial of humanity it's denial of common humanity its denial of the ability to access compassion.

And you know what's really fascinating about that experience is that that kind of denial is unsustainable it's unsustainable for us as individuals for our communities for our world.

And as we watch the ice caps melt for you know the planet. And I think that there is a and this this there's this kind of really. Interesting and sad phenomenon for us as human beings which even when you are supposedly the kind of group in power that that when you dehumanize the other you simultaneously dehumanize yourself because if you want to extend equity and if you can't extend compassion then what happens simultaneously is that you dehumanize and you take away your legitimate needful compassion and humanity.

And really what I what I do see what I do feel is yes history repeating and also just a sense of enormous sadness at the pain that I think is so real for so many people.

You lost a parent at a really really early age. I can't even fathom going through something like that just the thought of losing my parents makes me really really sad. And I spent a lot of time with them now more than I ever have before I go and see them every weekend because they're an hour away and then I think with age I've become much more aware of the fact that wait a minute this isn't going to be an option forever and I should really embrace it. What I wonder is how your making meaning of that experience has changed with age when you looked at it when you were 15 versus now. When I

Was 15 when my dad died and I remember very clearly my mother coming in basically telling me to go and say goodbye to my father. And I walked into his room and I remember that experience of knowing that it was the last time that I would see him. And you know we live in a society that really values this idea that I'm okay you know that that you will be okay just be positive in organizations. We see how it's just getting on with things just getting on with everything almost regardless of what our experiences. And I certainly as a 15 year old said that people would ask me how I was doing and I would say I'm okay. And you know I continued trying to put on a very brave face to the world.

And I think what has happened both as a function of age and experience and a function of my work is that way of being is unsustainable in organizations.

We very often push emotion aside will say things to people like you on the bus of the bus you either with us or against us you're either going to support the change or you're not going to support the change and offer what we try to do as we try to push aside difficult emotions. And yet the only way through difficult emotions is through it.

It's not about pushing them aside and it's not about pretending it's actually about being able to integrate what has happened in your life with who you are now as opposed to have a separate story. And I think for me what's happened over time is I have been able to really get up close with the pain of loss but I think also what's come with that is a very very strong sense of resilience in myself and a feeling that in some way and I remember my mother when my dad was dying my mother saying to me one day you'll look back at this experience and you will realize in some way that you are lucky. And I remember being so angry with her. What day you tell me that I'm lucky that my father is dying and she said to me I don't mean it in that way. But when you've gone through a difficult experience. Often what it does is it allows you to extend your empathy it allows you to understand what others are going through. It allows you to strengthen parts of yourself. And I recognize years later that she was true.

She was right. So how that changed. I think it changed in my experience. So I you know the time passing definitely changed the experience but I think there's also the recognition that we as a society do not deal well with grief stress anxiety we tend to Trapper's these emotions aside and often and pushing them aside we actually make ourselves weaker.

There's enormous strength in being able to show up to our difficult emotional experiences and to try to understand them and try try to understand the value that sits beneath them not to a no washing way but in a way that is Schou and and authentic.

Do you think the emotional resilience is only something that can be cultivated by having gone through a difficult experience because it seems to me that if you don't have something that forces resilience on you would be hard to develop.

Well they many people who go through difficult experiences and not everyone comes out of those difficult experiences more resilient. So we definitely can look at the psychological research and start saying you know what are the things that allow people to leave experiences more resilient versus less resilient. And then we can say you know what if you've never gone through a difficult experience before. Is it possible for you to be resilient. And again we find the same the commonality of factors the same essence in terms of how people with themselves and with their emotions and those those whole components become predictors of resilience. So in short answer to the question I think that difficult experience has definitely test our resilience. But I also believe when we look at the psychological research that they are ways of being that prepare us for difficult experiences and ways of being that allow us to get through difficult experiences that actually end up being the foundational aspects of resilience and you know those we can explore. But I don't think that going through a difficult experience is a necessity for resilience.

We'll talk about the foundational aspects of what leads to resilience. But I want to go into something that you talked about in the book and I am really pleased that you brought up this whole sort of be happy that self-help narrative. I mean you know I write some of this stuff I produce a lot of these conversations on the unmistakable creative where people talk about this about positivity we've had everybody from happiness researchers to performance psychologists. And there were a couple of lines in the book that really stood out to me. You said striving to be perfectly happy you will only set you up for frustration and failure and then you also said a growing body of research shows that images emotional rigidity getting hooked by thoughts and behaviors that don't serve as is associated with a range of psychological ills including depression and anxiety. Meanwhile emotional agility being flexible with your thoughts and feelings so that you can respond optimally to everyday situations is the key to well-being and success and I guess what I wonder is how do you not get hooked by thoughts feelings and behaviors that don't serve you when you're going through something difficult. Because I think that that's what happens to so many of us.

We go into this rumination of things yes physically do everything live in a society that tells us to be happy you know that being happy is our right.

And what the research is showing me is that when people become overly focused on being happy you know when you start seeing this idea of just be positive this is going to be the best Thanksgiving ever. It's going to be the happiest experience that I've ever had. And we stopped chasing goals around happiness.

What's super interesting is you find that those people become more and more unhappy over time. So there's almost this idea that expectations around happiness stops us from actually cultivating levels of authentic happiness. So I think that's the first way in which we can become rigid. But of course there are other ways and you allude to this in your in the quotation that you describe from the book which is that very often when we go through difficult experiences and it could be a difficult experience that is like you know a death or it could be a job loss or it could be a difficult experience that's even in a day to day life. You know I'm stressed or I'm really struggling to get this business up and going and so often what we do is we have thoughts I thought might be and I'm not good enough or I'm a fraud. Or it might be an emotion something knock I'm stressed I'm anxious I'm sad. Or it might even be a story a story. Sometimes our stories were written on the mental chalkboards in Grade 3 about who we are whether we are good enough what kind of relationships we deserve whether it be creative whether we not creative good at bad not good at math.

And so often what we do is we have these thoughts emotions stories and there's actually nothing wrong with having them you know if you look at the research we know that on average every single human being has around 16000 unspoken thoughts every single day. You know there's nothing wrong with a thought in of itself. But what starts to happen is we become cooked or emotionally rigid hooked is the language that I use in my book where we start giving these thoughts emotions stories more space in our lives than they should have. So an example might be you said yourself. You know I'm worried that I'm not going to get that job. So I'm just not going to put in my resume or I am concerned that this business that I want to start is not going to be successful so I'm just not even going to give it a go. Now what you start doing there is you starting to treat these thoughts emotions stories as fact rather than data.

So an example might be you know last week I was giving a presentation to a group of 4000 individuals and it happened that that particular day was my birthday. And I remember leaving the house and saying to my son that I was going away for the day and my son saying to me you know this is your second birthday that you've been away. And so I then stopped having the thought which is I'm a bad mom and I start having this emotion which is I feel guilty.

Now that's actually a really healthy thought and emotion is nothing wrong with that. You know Charles Darwin described these ideas that these emotions are. Taught to us as human beings helping us to better understand ourselves helping us to better understand what's important and to shape our lives accordingly. So there's nothing wrong with that old toy motion what becomes rigid is when you start treating the thought or emotion as fact. I had the thought that I'm a bad mom. They fry am a bad mom. You stop beating yourself up. You start treating yourself badly. You start lacking compassion in yourself. So really the whole idea behind emotional rigidity is that to use this wonderful Victor Frankl language he speaks about this idea that between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to choose. And it's in that choice that lies of growth and freedom. When you're hooked and emotionally rigid there is no space between stimulus and response. I had the thought that I'm a bad mom therefore I am a bad mom. I'm being undermined in this meeting some are going to shut down my papa starting in on the finances so I'm going to leave the room. What are we not bringing into the world at that point it is other parts of ourselves our values who we want to be. What is important to us. We are allowing our thoughts and emotions to call the shots so Reverend that your mother.

I wonder having been exposed to this body of knowledge and having had your work sent around this research what impact it had on the kind of parent your being and what would you tell parents who are listening.

Well it's had a huge impact on the kind of parent that I am.

None of us is a perfect parent and I think that the first thing that my work teaches me is that compassion is really important. Self compassion is really important. The recognition that all of us are doing the best we can with who we are with what we've got and with the resources that we've been given in life.

And so you know often when I'm upset of feeling up got a lot on that I'm struggling through it.

And especially when it comes to parenting. I think being able to extend compassion to ourselves is really important and also being able to extend compassion to our children is really important. There's a myth that compassion is about being weak Naisi or letting yourself or others off the hook but actually when we are compassionate we create a safe space in which we can experiment and fail in which we can try and we may not succeed but it allows that gives the permission to try. And this applies of course not just to parenting but it also applies to the workplace. We often move into the workplace with such a strong sense of expectation of others. This is tightness and this and focus on task and often what we forget is that we and others are doing the best we can and that if we can let go of the tightness and be compassionate and it doesn't mean we let go of expectation but that's a very powerful case for one of us.

So it's impacted on my parenting in that way. And another very practical way that this research has impact on my parenting is that we do grow up in a society that tells us that positive emotions are all that count and. Or not all that camp. But the most important and that often what we do inadvertently is when our children come home and they are upset about something or no one would play with me today or they worried often with very good intentions as parents we try to make things ok so don't worry I'll play with you. Also the main goals parents not organize a play date and what we are inadvertently signaling toward children is that some emotions are good. In other words happiness is good and some emotions are bad. We need to get rid of those difficult emotions. And really what the research shows but what that teaches our children is that emotions are good or bad. Some emotions to be fit. And it doesn't actually allow our children to develop the skills that are necessary in dealing with the world as it is in which pain and heartache are built into our contract with the world.

And so one thing that I just can't think of in terms of my own parenting is when my child is upset about something is showing up to that upset. There's this beautiful phrase in South Africa Savu Boehner and so on and literally translated means I see you. And by seeing you I bring you into being and what I really try to do with my children imperfectly but I try to do is when they're feeling upset or sad about something is not to push them away or to jolly it along and say you know everything's fine. But to really try to kind of show up to how it is that they're feeling in that moment.

So earlier you mentioned this capacity that we all have to pause between stimulus and response which I've heard from other people and I think that every one of us understands that logically. Yet I think in practice it becomes harder especially when somebody does something that makes as bad or something that upsets us. What in your research have you found is the key to develop that capacity to pause between stimulus and response.

Well the first thing is a lot of times people will say Oh it's very difficult to pause because this thing has caught me off guard. But actually when you dig a little bit deeper what comes out is that a lot of the times that we struggle to pause between stimulus and response all of our pets and ways of being in the world. So we might find that there is a particular individual at work who always evokes a particular reaction in us or they might be a situation way. It's specifically where our competence is being questioned. That leads us to a particular level of defensiveness. Or we may be very patterned and autopilot and coming home from work and bringing our cell to the table. And again there's no space between stimulus and response because you know we just doing things in a way that is autopilot as opposed to where the traffic saw that is so I think this idea that you know that our emotions catch us off guard is is actually yes true on the face of it.

But often we think a little bit deeper about the things that trip us up time and time and time again. It is patent and therefore it is predictable. But that coupled with other things that I think are critical in terms of being able to create space between stimulus and response.

The first is to do away with the idea that there are good emotions and bad emotions that I'm allowed to be happy and I'm allowed to just get on with it. But I'm not allowed to be anxious and I'm not allowed to be sad and I'm not allowed to be angry and I'm not allowed to be stressed. And because when you treat some emotions is good and some emotions is bad. What's this means is that you are cutting yourself off from a whole warning signal that we have as human beings. You know I'm connected with my sadness what of a stock recognizing is that my sadness is increasing in relation to particular situation and some kind of tracking my sadness. And it's not taking me by surprise because I'm more authentically connected with the reality of my human experience. So it really kind of doing away with this idea that the good emotions and bad emotions is a fundamental building block to being able to create pause between stimulus and response.

And another just very quick strategy is that often people will say things like you know I am say.

I am being undermined in this meeting so I'm going to shut down. I am stressed and when I say I am. What makes that sound is as if you are the emotion.

You know I am sad all of me. One hundred percent of me is sad and you can see that in this context and there's no space between you and the emotion because you've made all of you the emotion.

So a very practical way that I teach my clients and I use in organizations is just name the thought emotion feeling for what it is. It's a thought and it's an emotion or it's a feeling. It's not a directive to action. You know who's in charge here. Think with a thought.

So instead of saying I am sad I'm noticing the feeling that I'm sad instead of I am stressed I'm noticing the feeling that I'm stressed.

It's so subtle that what you doing that prefixing I am noticing the feeling I'm not seeing the thought you're naming them for what they are is you creating critical space between you and that emotional experience. While

You might ask you one other question on pattern responses and I'll give you an example from my own life because I really wonder how to change a pattern responses. I have a pattern response on it. I've noticed this throughout my life. If I enter a stressful situation whether that be something related to my finances I find out the money is not going to come in. That's not going to come in whether that be really a relationship or somebody breaks up with me or something else. I have had this tendency to say OK I'm going to go smoke a cigarette. And I'm an avid surfer and avid snowboarder. I lead a fairly healthy lifestyle yet I've seen that pattern response over and over throughout my life. I wonder how do you break something like that.

So it sounds like what you've done is you've you've kind of developed a set do you actually go and spike the cigarette.

Well what's funny is that you would never find me smoking a cigarette in any other situation. I lead a very healthy lifestyle I go across but but when that happens or I'm I'm stressed then I will go and buy like a cigar or something but that you know I think what I'm trying to do is numb whatever it is that I'm feeling.

So yeah I mean I think that they are two aspects to this. The first is that often when we go through difficult experiences we can and we see this across human beings. We can start engaging in short term emotional avoidance strategies. So alcohol is one of them. Excessive sleep is another. Drinking smoking. These are examples. And these nights samples of emotion regulation is strategies that are less effective and less healthy. Now of course the opposite side people can use emotion regulation strategies that are more effective and more healthy so going for a run listening to music and connecting with others for social support. These are also just short term emotional regulation strategies but they're more healthy emotion regulation strategies. So I think you know they are helpful ways to think about this. The first is that you know what you're doing here is you are engaging in a as you recognize short term unhealthy emotion regulation strategy and what kind of science of habit change would say to you it is that the way to break that habit because it's become a habit that's evoked by a particularly emotional response is to switch is to consciously switch it out. So you know you know that the next time you're in this kind of stressful situation that you may automatically want to do the great and what the research on habit change tells us is that a lot of times when people are trying to change habits what they do is they think about positive visualization.

So they might say you know I'm trying to get fit and healthy I'm going to imagine myself crossing the finishing line and you know I'm trying to be healthy.

I'm going to imagine myself all and and you know toned and buffed and a lot of the signs of change tells us that while people often do these imaginings of things going Bright. One of the most effective ways to change habits is thinking about the obstacles. So the obstacle is you might be trying to be fit and healthy but when you are stressed you automatically draw on this particular thing which is the cigarette and that imagining obstacles and actually understanding obstacles and making conscious choices about how you might replace that cigarette with something else in a very systematic thought out and intentional way is is often the way to start learning that habit. So you know for instance we know this when people have good eating disorders and they you know a typical example of this is in cases of balmier when someone is tempted to binge and purge for instance we know from the psychological research actually what we want to do is in that trigger they need to find an alternative action so it might be that they go for a walk. It might be that they take a bath but they are specifically choosing something that they use to replace the one with the other. The longer term to this is is less about the cigarette you know the longer term to this is also about being able to recognise that when you're feeling stressed.

Block What is it that's actually going on for you when you feeling sad. What is it that's going on for you. What are some of the values that the loss of the relationship might be connecting with King your way from that's important to you. And so it really kind of coming face to face with those things is what helps the situations in the longer term. So we've got the short term emotion regulation strategy but then we've got the longer term stuff that's the real work around any aspect of human change.

So speaking of ADF whatever you chose this quote in particular I think is very very resonant with me right now particularly legis wrote a piece where I'm going actually had this quote to it. I just realized I needed to say one of the greatest paradoxes of human experience is that we can't change ourselves or our circumstances until we accept what exists right now. This means giving permission for the world to be as it is because it's only when we stop trying to control the universe that we make peace with it. And yet. That flies in the face of all of our cultural narratives around striving and hustling and grinding and 60 hour work weeks. How do you balance that paradox with actually doing the things that are necessary to accomplish your goals.

So acceptance is not passive resignation it's not acceptance is not passive resignation it's not saying oh my goodness this is just the world as it is there's nothing I can do.

Acceptance is the recognition that this is the world as it is and I'll I'll give you an example of this when my father died a huge part of me did not want to accept it. And so when you start entering into a space of lack of acceptance what you do is you struggle with your emotions. You struggle with the grief. Why am I feeling so sad. Like I shouldn't be grieving. People are telling me that everything's gonna be ok. There's there's so much of the way we live in the world that really banishes these difficult emotions and difficult experiences. And so what we learned a being is we learned being human beings feeling that we can fix everything. You know we don't lack the walls in our house we can paint them with our knockout car we can buy new cars. We don't like herself. We can buy new Cellcom and we start thinking that when we have difficult thoughts emotions we can just fix them. Banished them do away with and replaced them with positive and everything will be OK. But actually paradoxically what we know from the psychological research is that. Acceptance of our most difficult emotions is the cornerstone to resilience to thriving and to real change.

So you know an example of this is someone who is seeking a relationship. And this this sometimes this hustling that can go on. You use that word earlier. That that is kind of doing a lot of activity in the world. But there's a real power in actually showing up to the loneliness of the experience like showing up to how a learned one might feel and and why that loneliness is difficult. And so it's not a passive resignation it's about kind of being able to name your experience show up to it understand that that loneliness is a signal that intimacy and belonging are really important that the values that are powerful beneath us. And. When we are able to show up to the reality of our experience and we label that experience accurately and we understand the values that they experience pointed. That is what helps us to move forward. And I'll give you just a very simple example of what this can look like. You know I often in my work will hear people say things like you know I'm unhappy at my job. But at least I've got a job. And so what they don't is they're constantly pushing aside those emotional signals and five years later the person still saying I'm unhappy in my job.

But at least I've got a job. But now five years have passed and they have completely lost their time that they could have been shaping themselves more effectively shaping their careers and their skills and so on and so the pressure of acceptance is really the power of being able to show up to the reality of my experience. I am in a job in which I feel stuck. I'm in a job in which there's limited growth and limited opportunity. This is my reality. When we are able to accept when we are able to say what is the fear that's underneath that. What is the motion. That's. In that experience. And when we are able to start saying what are the values that are not being served in my current job at mapi values of growth security or collaboration. For instance we start getting a bigger picture about how we need to move forward in order to make the change. So really this idea of acceptance is not passive resignation. It's about showing up courageously to a job an experience a relationship or a situation and say this is luck.

The thing is when you can get your arms around what the thing is you can start moving forward productively.

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So I had an experience recently that I think was really indicative of exactly what you're talking about. I had a new book Come out in August and I was really stressed about the fact that it wasn't selling as many copies as I wanted it to. I was going slower and I remember this moment. This was a few days ago where I thought to myself OK that's it I'm going to surrender.

I've got to make my peace with the fact that this isn't going to become a New York Times best seller that we're not going to sell 10000 copies in a week. And I should be ok with it. And I saw that we had moved 40 to 50 copies over the course of the previous week and my in that moment of surrender suddenly I had this moment of clarity where I said OK what can we do instead of trying to reach this exorbitant goal of tens of thousands of copies.

What else could we be doing to continue that 40 to 50 copies a week and a half hour from editor that we had crossed the 1000 copy threshold. And I realized that if I had been so rigid about that expectation of bestseller 10000 copies I would have completely overlooked how much I had to appreciate getting to that thousand Cauvery threshold which apparently most books don't even hit.

I think that's a really really powerful example. And what it also speaks to is that when you are stressed in that way you know we spoke clearly about being cooked being driven by your thoughts emotions and stories. There's no space you know what you can start seeing and that expense. I'm straight this is terrible this is awful this is a failure. There's this you know. And so that can drive this whole narrative. Whereas if you are able to say

I'm really disappointed because I put so much effort into this thing and it hasn't unfolded in the way that I'd hoped. And you can name it and you couldn't own up to it and you could start saying now what is the venue that is beneath us disappointment that then he might be that I'm not getting the message out to particular people or the value might be that you know and wanting to build my platform in very particular ways. And I'm kind of struggling to do that. And you start actually connecting in with the values that underlie this thing that humanity be calling stress what it allows you to then do is have clarity and take out that piece of paper and say OK. What can I do in this situation and what you are starting to do is you study to move yourself from a struggle that lies in the face of confusion and emotion into a struggle that is directed by us.

Wow.

And the character that's directed by bandies.

So you talked a bit. I think this is really a fitting segue to what I want to talk about next. You mentioned this idea that self acceptance usually takes a big hit when we start making comparisons and you say looking to someone whose accomplishments are just a notch or two above you your own might be inspiring but judging yourself against a true superstar or a once in a lifetime genius can be devastating. That's in part because we tend to focus on the end result rather than what it takes to get there. And what's amazing is that we live in a world where this happens 24 hours a day because if you log into Facebook and look through a news feed there's always somebody who has accomplished something far more impressive or amazing than you have. And so I wonder what does your research show about the role that social media is playing in amplifying this sense of comparison that we have. And what are the things that we can do to not get caught up in this sense of comparison but also look to people who are role models who do inspire. So I'll give you all finished this stuff with one other example. I had a listener once who emailed me and told me I can't keep listening to your show because these stories are with amazing people and it's actually making me feel worse about myself. And I actually understood why he said that yeah.

Yeah. Well it's you know it's it's fascinating. Before we even get to social media what we know is that one of the most toxic ways we can be in the world is when we. Constantly compare ourselves to others. So. So social comparison has an enormous level of toxicity to us as human beings psychologically whether that's through media whether it's through looking at you know people in magazines and so on. So. We as human beings are thirsty when we compare there's this toxic experience but also end up being subjected to what in psychological science is called social contagion and social contagion Israeli the idea that not only are we comparing ourselves to others but we are also trying to acquire and behave like others without even realizing that we are trying to do it. So I'll give an example. Imagine you are trying to lose weight and you go on an airplane and your seat partner buys candy. What the research shows is that you are 70 percent more likely to buy candy as well. You don't even need to know the part that but you're more likely to buy candy. If someone in your social network gets divorced or puts on weight you are more likely to get divorced to put on weight.

And while this might sound bizarre we've all had that experience you know you got dinner one person orders dessert. We all ordered dessert without even realizing you know that we drink it. If one person brings a cell phone into a meeting we all start taking out our cell phone. So what starts to happen is you've got this social comparison that human beings often engage in. And then you've got this social contagion which is the picking up on the emotions and the behaviors of others in a way that can often take us away from our venues away from what's important. Now let's bring social media into into the mix. Imagine you've got someone who you consider to be a complete loser in fifth grade and that person is now driving around in a Ferrari wi with social media on now. Now no longer comparing ourselves to this one individual. We comparing ourselves to every single person who has some level of success. And so it becomes amplified. How do we protect ourselves against this. There are a couple of things that we know to be important. The first is

Having a sense of who we are our values what we stand for what is important. Front of mind. We know for instance that when people have grown up in situations where they say they're told Oh you know you're never going to make it to college. People like us don't make it to college. That person tries and tries and tries and finally makes it to college and when they experience their first stress for instance they take a test and they fail. They're much more likely to drop out. But if those people have spent 10 minutes thinking about what am I values here who am I trying to be. Why am I studying this particular thing at college. It protects them. So the first thing is that values are often seen as being abstract wishy washy ideas but we know that they are powerful. Knowing who you are what you stand for what's important can protect you from so many of the ill effects of social comparison and of social contagion. You know about trying to be in the situation. Yes everyone else is stressed in the workplace but how do I want to bring myself to the meeting or to my client. Yes. Other people are selling more copies of books than I am. But what is the value that I have to offer.

What is my unique message and how can our work to bring my unique message to the world regardless of what other people are. And again to your point earlier that's not saying that you may not say well you know what is this individual doing strategically that might be helpful.

I think that you know that that can be incredibly It's a results that can be incredibly helpful to learn from others. But what starts to happen is when you start to engage with ideas of how. It's not about the work it's not about what I've got to do it's not about these activities but actually it's a reflection of me how I'm not good enough. I'm not smart enough I'm not you know we take these things that are

Functions very often of the Arment and we stopped making them very personal and feeling really bad about ourselves. And that's when social comparison can become the most toxic.

Wow. So you mentioned values and this is one the line that in the book really really struck me because it felt like so much of my life has been dictated by a very similar message so identifying what you value and acting on it is not always easy. We're constantly bombarded with messages from culture advertisers our upbringing our religious training and families friends and peers about what is important and what makes us worthy. And I think that particularly in immigrant cultures we get very very clear messages on what makes us worthy and what's important. And I wonder how you get back to a place of acting on your own values when your social programming is so deeply embedded in who you are.

Yeah and I think this is a very common expense for people you know this is in the psychological research on values we call its clients clients is the idea that our parents might tell us what is important and so we grow up with this idea that okay that's the thing that's important and then we start expensing a sense of dissonance. You know you feel like you're not living your own life or you feel like you would do something else you would embark on a different Korea.

If it weren't for that programming that told you that if you engage in that career that you somehow a failure. And so we can often have these these venues that can feel like our own simply because they are so comfortable and yet they are really subdomains the reflections of what we've been told to believe. And so I think this is way thirsty again moving into discomfort is so important.

If you just shun those so-called difficult emotions and you say well I'm experiencing dissonance but I'm just going to ignore it and I'm going to keep on doing what I'm doing you know getting through with this particular thing I've been told represents value in my career or in my life. And then you are not being agile. You're not being effective you simply are. Using rule based thinking that developed from when you were a little child and so this is way starting to inquire starting to say unity Atheel dissonance I feel discomfort.

I feel sadness and I'm not pushing it aside but rather trying to hold it name it enabled it and to stand in it and start to help you to surface. What are your values. What is something that you would rather than what has been told to you. So you know I use that example earlier of someone saying you know. I'm in a job that at least I've got a job so I'm just going to push aside these difficult emotions. Imagine the enormous power of someone saying I met in this job. This is the job that I've been told by my parents by society is the right thing for me to be doing better. What I'm feeling here is sadness and that sadness represents a loss of growth or a loss of opportunity or a lack of creativity or a lack of communion and community or whatever it is that that sadness signals to the person. And so what you recognize is that beneath that most difficulty emotion is a signpost of something that you care about. That sign is often a signpost to your Benyus to your true values. And so what. Start getting here. Is this really powerful way of using of mining. Almos difficult emotions in a way that helps us to understand who we are as people. What's important to us and to makeshifts accordingly and to also recognize that you know a value that you might have had when you were 20 years old may no longer be your 10 years. You know your values evolve and change and there's such power in being able to embrace the freedom that comes with the recognition that as a human being everything else in the world changes. So why wouldn't we as people change. Why wouldn't Tao then use change. Of course they can change of course they can evolve.

So from everything that you and I have talked about my senses that this ability to have emotional agility is not a tactic but it's a practice and something that you have to keep working on an ongoing basis.

Yeah I think that they're both practice aspects of emotional agility the practice aspects are about kind of do away with the idea that there's a good or bad emotion. The practice aspects are about being able to recognize that there's enormous power in the space have to confront the practice aspects are about being able to create space between you and what you do so that your values can come to the fore.

And then also very tactical aspects to it. So in the book for instance I talk about making values aligned tweaks or values align changes to your life. So an example might be you know the example that I gave earlier which is you might have a. Habit that you're engaging which is you know your unhealthy unwanted cigar. Every time you are upset as an example or not every stop it you know when you draw to that end there's a science of habit change that shows that technically you can stop making very different habits. I'll give you an example. Imagine you trying to make a values aligned habits change to your health. And imagine you already ate breakfast every morning and your values and habits change is that you try to eat more fruits as well. As technical aspect is something that we call piggybacking and piggybacking is where you take a habit that already exists in your day to day life. You're ready. Eat your cereal. And you. Now at this new values aligned habit to the thing that already exist you are adding your fruit to your cereal.

Now that's a very small example but that's tactical in that we've all many many things that we do routinely every day but we can start making very small shifts to those habits to elevate our values into our lives so that we started to do more of what is meaningful to us and that is very practical.

Well what this has been truly truly amazing I think to me this was one of those conversations that I and I'm guessing other people will have to go back and play at least 15 times to get everything you've packed into it.

So I have one final question for you which is how we control over Oliver interviews of the mystical of what do you think it is that makes somebody or something unmistakable I think what makes someone a mistake will is an individual who knows who they are and what they stand for and are able to try every day to make moves towards Smith's moves towards those values. I think you know that is the hallmark of authenticity. It's the hallmark of self ownership. It's the hallmark of autonomy and it's the whole lack of growth and you know for me that if you said to me like What is success.

Success is not about living someone else's life or matching up to someone else. It's about an understanding at a core level of who you are and who you want to be in the world. And I don't think there's anything more powerful or anything more creative than being self authoring in that way.

Well I think that makes a really fit again to our conversation where can people find out more about your your work and everything you're up to.

So thank you. Thank you so much sir. Three aspects that I think might be helpful to people. The first is my TED talk at the gift and power of emotional courage. The second is that I've got an online quiz that about 100000 people have taken now and it's free. Very quick quiz that focuses on emotional agility and you get a report that comes with that and that people can find on my website. Susan David dot come forward slash learn our email already with a South African accent. And the third is the book Emotional gelati fantastic.

And we'll include all those things in the Schoenaerts for everybody and for everybody listening. We'll wrap the show up.

Thank you for listening to this episode of The unmistakable creative podcast and why you're listening. Are there any moments you found fascinating inspiring instructive maybe even heartwarming. Can you think of anyone a friend or family member who would appreciate this moment. If so take a second and share today's episode with that one person. Because good ideas and messages are meant to be shared.

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Another just very quick strategy is that often people will say things like you know I say it.

I am being undermined in this meeting so I'm going to shut down. I am stressed. And when I say I am what makes it sound is as if you are the emotion.

You know I am sad all of me. 100 percent of me is sad. And you can see that in this context and there's no space between you and the emotion because you've made all of you the emotion.

So a very practical way that I teach my clients and I use in organizations is just name for emotion feeling for what it is. It's a thought and it's an emotion or it's a feeling it's not a directive to action you know who's in charge here that's been caught with a thought.

So instead of saying I am sad I'm noticing the feeling that I'm sad instead of I am stressed.

I'm noticing the feeling that I'm stressed. It's so subtle that what you're doing by prefixing I am noticing the feeling I'm noticing the thought you're naming them for wh]]>
The way we navigate our inner thoughts in our everyday lives is the most important factor of our life success. Susan David is an award-winning psychologist and author of Emotional Agility. In this episode, Susan touches on the powerful process found within her book, which ultimately leads us to accept the existence of our circumstances and allows us to adapt and thrive in life regardless of who we are or whatever we face.

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Four Sigmatic is a superfood company founded by a group of Finnish Funguys. We aim to popularize functional mushrooms and adaptogens by incorporating them in mainstream products like coffee, tea and cacao. We were founded in 2012 and came to the U.S. in 2015.

Another just very quick strategy is that often people will say things like you know I say it.

I am being undermined in this meeting so I'm going to shut down. I am stressed. And when I say I am what makes it sound is as if you are the emotion.

You know I am sad all of me. 100 percent of me is sad. And you can see that in this context and there's no space between you and the emotion because you've made all of you the emotion.

So a very practical way that I teach my clients and I use in organizations is just name for emotion feeling for what it is. It's a thought and it's an emotion or it's a feeling it's not a directive to action you know who's in charge here that's been caught with a thought.

So instead of saying I am sad I'm noticing the feeling that I'm sad instead of I am stressed.

I'm noticing the feeling that I'm stressed. It's so subtle that what you're doing by prefixing I am noticing the feeling I'm noticing the thought you're naming them for wh]]>
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Mon, 01 Oct 2018 07:00:26 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7434InspiringSometimes, your creativity may lead you on a path that leaves you feeling as if you need to entirely forget what you’ve been taught in order for you to continue with your creative journey. What do we do when we find ourselves here? David Kadavy is an author, creative entrepreneur & host of the Love Your Work podcast. Through sharing many of his own experiences and personal insights, he helps us to understand how to reconcile our social programming and creative desires.

Sometimes, your creativity may lead you on a path that leaves you feeling as if you need to entirely forget what you’ve been taught in order for you to continue with your creative journey. What do we do when we find ourselves here? David Kadavy is an author, creative entrepreneur & host of the Love Your Work podcast. Through sharing many of his own experiences and personal insights, he helps us to understand how to reconcile our social programming and creative desires.

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Sometimes, your creativity may lead you on a path that leaves you feeling as if you need to entirely forget what you’ve been taught in order for you to continue with your creative journey. What do we do when we find ourselves here? David Kadavy is an author, creative entrepreneur & host of the Love Your Work podcast. Through sharing many of his own experiences and personal insights, he helps us to understand how to reconcile our social programming and creative desires.

Sometimes, your creativity may lead you on a path that leaves you feeling as if you need to entirely forget what you’ve been taught in order for you to continue with your creative journey. What do we do when we find ourselves here? David Kadavy is an author, creative entrepreneur & host of the Love Your Work podcast. Through sharing many of his own experiences and personal insights, he helps us to understand how to reconcile our social programming and creative desires.

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Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:00:44 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7405InspiringIn classic cult psychology or cult literature, there’s really two characteristics to a cult. First is that it’s ideologically intense and of course that can describe a lot of organizations. Everything from say something like the Landmark forum to the United States of America. We have an ideology that sits behind the organization. In order to be a part of the US government you have to adopt a certain kind of ideology. There’s this idea that we have an ideology. And cults for that reason pray on people like myself who really want to make the world a better place, want to change the world or feel dissatisfied in some way. There can be political cults. There are quite a few of those out there. There can be spiritual cults. There can be even commercial cults. Real estate is apparently a really common place right now where you find people who are learning how to flip houses and do all this stuff. And they began to develop these really intense ideology around how they approach the world and how they see the world. – Bob Gower

In classic cult psychology or cult literature, there’s really two characteristics to a cult. First is that it’s ideologically intense and of course that can describe a lot of organizations. Everything from say something like the Landmark forum to the United States of America. We have an ideology that sits behind the organization. In order to be a part of the US government you have to adopt a certain kind of ideology. There’s this idea that we have an ideology. And cults for that reason pray on people like myself who really want to make the world a better place, want to change the world or feel dissatisfied in some way. There can be political cults. There are quite a few of those out there. There can be spiritual cults. There can be even commercial cults. Real estate is apparently a really common place right now where you find people who are learning how to flip houses and do all this stuff. And they began to develop these really intense ideology around how they approach the world and how they see the world. – Bob Gower

]]>In classic cult psychology or cult literature, there’s really two characteristics to a cult. First is that it’s ideologically intense and of course that can describe a lot of organizations. Everything from say something like the Landmark forum to the United States of America. We have an ideology that sits behind the organization. In order to be a part of the US government you have to adopt a certain kind of ideology. There’s this idea that we have an ideology. And cults for that reason pray on people like myself who really want to make the world a better place, want to change the world or feel dissatisfied in some way. There can be political cults. There are quite a few of those out there. There can be spiritual cults. There can be even commercial cults. Real estate is apparently a really common place right now where you find people who are learning how to flip houses and do all this stuff. And they began to develop these really intense ideology around how they approach the world and how they see the world. – Bob Gower

In classic cult psychology or cult literature, there’s really two characteristics to a cult. First is that it’s ideologically intense and of course that can describe a lot of organizations. Everything from say something like the Landmark forum to the United States of America. We have an ideology that sits behind the organization. In order to be a part of the US government you have to adopt a certain kind of ideology. There’s this idea that we have an ideology. And cults for that reason pray on people like myself who really want to make the world a better place, want to change the world or feel dissatisfied in some way. There can be political cults. There are quite a few of those out there. There can be spiritual cults. There can be even commercial cults. Real estate is apparently a really common place right now where you find people who are learning how to flip houses and do all this stuff. And they began to develop these really intense ideology around how they approach the world and how they see the world. – Bob Gower

]]>In classic cult psychology or cult literature, there’s really two characteristics to a cult. First is that it’s ideologically intense and of course that can describe a lot of organizations. Everything from say something like the Landmark forum to the United States of America. We have an ideology that sits behind the organization. In order to be a part of the US government you have to adopt a certain kind of ideology. There’s this idea that we have an ideology. And cults for that reason pray on people like myself who really want to make the world a better place, want to change the world or feel dissatisfied in some way. There can be political cults. There are quite a few of those out there. There can be spiritual cults. There can be even commercial cults. Real estate is apparently a really common place right now where you find people who are learning how to flip houses and do all this stuff. And they began to develop these really intense ideology around how they approach the world and how they see the world. – Bob Gower

In classic cult psychology or cult literature, there’s really two characteristics to a cult. First is that it’s ideologically intense and of course that can describe a lot of organizations. Everything from say something like the Landmark forum to the United States of America. We have an ideology that sits behind the organization. In order to be a part of the US government you have to adopt a certain kind of ideology. There’s this idea that we have an ideology. And cults for that reason pray on people like myself who really want to make the world a better place, want to change the world or feel dissatisfied in some way. There can be political cults. There are quite a few of those out there. There can be spiritual cults. There can be even commercial cults. Real estate is apparently a really common place right now where you find people who are learning how to flip houses and do all this stuff. And they began to develop these really intense ideology around how they approach the world and how they see the world. – Bob Gower

]]>cleanNonono01:02:04sriniZone of Genius Thinking with Michael Pottshttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/discover-zone-genius-michael-potts/
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:00:04 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7413InspiringAre you a Visionary, an Architect, a Builder; or a Cultivator? Today we get to sit down with mentor, director, consultant and entrepreneur, Michael Potts. In this episode, Michael shares with us many powerful lessons and life experiences, whereby we can learn more about ourselves and the areas in which we are most efficient. Join us to discover the value of your individual strengths and ultimately, your zone of genius.

Are you a Visionary, an Architect, a Builder; or a Cultivator? Today we get to sit down with mentor, director, consultant and entrepreneur, Michael Potts. In this episode, Michael shares with us many powerful lessons and life experiences, whereby we can learn more about ourselves and the areas in which we are most efficient. Join us to discover the value of your individual strengths and ultimately, your zone of genius.

]]>Are you a Visionary, an Architect, a Builder; or a Cultivator? Today we get to sit down with mentor, director, consultant and entrepreneur, Michael Potts. In this episode, Michael shares with us many powerful lessons and life experiences, whereby we can learn more about ourselves and the areas in which we are most efficient. Join us to discover the value of your individual strengths and ultimately, your zone of genius.

Are you a Visionary, an Architect, a Builder; or a Cultivator? Today we get to sit down with mentor, director, consultant and entrepreneur, Michael Potts. In this episode, Michael shares with us many powerful lessons and life experiences, whereby we can learn more about ourselves and the areas in which we are most efficient. Join us to discover the value of your individual strengths and ultimately, your zone of genius.

]]>Are you a Visionary, an Architect, a Builder; or a Cultivator? Today we get to sit down with mentor, director, consultant and entrepreneur, Michael Potts. In this episode, Michael shares with us many powerful lessons and life experiences, whereby we can learn more about ourselves and the areas in which we are most efficient. Join us to discover the value of your individual strengths and ultimately, your zone of genius.

Are you a Visionary, an Architect, a Builder; or a Cultivator? Today we get to sit down with mentor, director, consultant and entrepreneur, Michael Potts. In this episode, Michael shares with us many powerful lessons and life experiences, whereby we can learn more about ourselves and the areas in which we are most efficient. Join us to discover the value of your individual strengths and ultimately, your zone of genius.

]]>cleanNonono00:43:56sriniLove As Your Bottom Line with Danielle Laportehttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/love-bottom-line-danielle-laporte/
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 07:00:48 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7391InspiringIn this episode, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and blogger, Danielle Laporte shares the thought-provoking and inspirational truths that unfold in our lives when we make Love our bottom line. Danielle expands on many intimate concepts including spirituality, belonging, affection, and surrender; as well as how, with a mindfulness of Love, we can lead a peaceful life of choice and self-acceptance. Open your heart to what Danielle has to share because with this one, she truly brings it home.

In this episode, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and blogger, Danielle Laporte shares the thought-provoking and inspirational truths that unfold in our lives when we make Love our bottom line. Danielle expands on many intimate concepts including spirituality, belonging, affection, and surrender; as well as how, with a mindfulness of Love, we can lead a peaceful life of choice and self-acceptance. Open your heart to what Danielle has to share because with this one, she truly brings it home.

]]>In this episode, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and blogger, Danielle Laporte shares the thought-provoking and inspirational truths that unfold in our lives when we make Love our bottom line. Danielle expands on many intimate concepts including spirituality, belonging, affection, and surrender; as well as how, with a mindfulness of Love, we can lead a peaceful life of choice and self-acceptance. Open your heart to what Danielle has to share because with this one, she truly brings it home.

In this episode, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and blogger, Danielle Laporte shares the thought-provoking and inspirational truths that unfold in our lives when we make Love our bottom line. Danielle expands on many intimate concepts including spirituality, belonging, affection, and surrender; as well as how, with a mindfulness of Love, we can lead a peaceful life of choice and self-acceptance. Open your heart to what Danielle has to share because with this one, she truly brings it home.

]]>In this episode, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and blogger, Danielle Laporte shares the thought-provoking and inspirational truths that unfold in our lives when we make Love our bottom line. Danielle expands on many intimate concepts including spirituality, belonging, affection, and surrender; as well as how, with a mindfulness of Love, we can lead a peaceful life of choice and self-acceptance. Open your heart to what Danielle has to share because with this one, she truly brings it home.

In this episode, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and blogger, Danielle Laporte shares the thought-provoking and inspirational truths that unfold in our lives when we make Love our bottom line. Danielle expands on many intimate concepts including spirituality, belonging, affection, and surrender; as well as how, with a mindfulness of Love, we can lead a peaceful life of choice and self-acceptance. Open your heart to what Danielle has to share because with this one, she truly brings it home.

]]>cleanNonono00:53:24sriniBest Of: Asking a More Beautiful Question with Warren Bergerhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-asking-beautiful-question-warren-berger/
Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:00:09 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7380InspiringIn this episode, author Warren Berger joins us to talk about the power of leveraging questions to drive innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

HIGHLIGHTS

The importance of letting our work be shaped by different perspectives

Why questioning matters and why we don’t appreciate it as much as we should

How questioning unintentionally gets trained out of us

Developing a capacity for and a habit of asking questions

The why, what if, and how framework for asking questions

How the Polaroid camera came into existence through a child’s question

An expert on design thinking and innovation, Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, designers, education leaders, creative thinkers, and red-hot start-ups to analyze how they ask game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. Warren believes that questioning leads to innovation, can help you be more successful in your career, and can spark change in our businesses and lives.

In this episode, author Warren Berger joins us to talk about the power of leveraging questions to drive innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

HIGHLIGHTS

The importance of letting our work be shaped by different perspectives

Why questioning matters and why we don’t appreciate it as much as we should

How questioning unintentionally gets trained out of us

Developing a capacity for and a habit of asking questions

The why, what if, and how framework for asking questions

How the Polaroid camera came into existence through a child’s question

An expert on design thinking and innovation, Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, designers, education leaders, creative thinkers, and red-hot start-ups to analyze how they ask game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. Warren believes that questioning leads to innovation, can help you be more successful in your career, and can spark change in our businesses and lives.

]]>In this episode, author Warren Berger joins us to talk about the power of leveraging questions to drive innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

HIGHLIGHTS

The importance of letting our work be shaped by different perspectives

Why questioning matters and why we don’t appreciate it as much as we should

How questioning unintentionally gets trained out of us

Developing a capacity for and a habit of asking questions

The why, what if, and how framework for asking questions

How the Polaroid camera came into existence through a child’s question

An expert on design thinking and innovation, Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, designers, education leaders, creative thinkers, and red-hot start-ups to analyze how they ask game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. Warren believes that questioning leads to innovation, can help you be more successful in your career, and can spark change in our businesses and lives.

In this episode, author Warren Berger joins us to talk about the power of leveraging questions to drive innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

HIGHLIGHTS

The importance of letting our work be shaped by different perspectives

Why questioning matters and why we don’t appreciate it as much as we should

How questioning unintentionally gets trained out of us

Developing a capacity for and a habit of asking questions

The why, what if, and how framework for asking questions

How the Polaroid camera came into existence through a child’s question

An expert on design thinking and innovation, Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, designers, education leaders, creative thinkers, and red-hot start-ups to analyze how they ask game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. Warren believes that questioning leads to innovation, can help you be more successful in your career, and can spark change in our businesses and lives.

]]>In this episode, author Warren Berger joins us to talk about the power of leveraging questions to drive innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

HIGHLIGHTS

The importance of letting our work be shaped by different perspectives

Why questioning matters and why we don’t appreciate it as much as we should

How questioning unintentionally gets trained out of us

Developing a capacity for and a habit of asking questions

The why, what if, and how framework for asking questions

How the Polaroid camera came into existence through a child’s question

An expert on design thinking and innovation, Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, designers, education leaders, creative thinkers, and red-hot start-ups to analyze how they ask game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. Warren believes that questioning leads to innovation, can help you be more successful in your career, and can spark change in our businesses and lives.

In this episode, author Warren Berger joins us to talk about the power of leveraging questions to drive innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

HIGHLIGHTS

The importance of letting our work be shaped by different perspectives

Why questioning matters and why we don’t appreciate it as much as we should

How questioning unintentionally gets trained out of us

Developing a capacity for and a habit of asking questions

The why, what if, and how framework for asking questions

How the Polaroid camera came into existence through a child’s question

An expert on design thinking and innovation, Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, designers, education leaders, creative thinkers, and red-hot start-ups to analyze how they ask game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. Warren believes that questioning leads to innovation, can help you be more successful in your career, and can spark change in our businesses and lives.

]]>cleanNonono00:46:24sriniGetting to Hell Yes with Alex Jamieson and Bob Gowerhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/getting-hell-yes-alex-jamieson-bob-gower/
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:00:08 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7320InspiringIn today’s episode, we get to sit down with Facilitator, Advisor and Connector, Bob Gower, as well as natural foods Chef, author, speaker, TV personality, and holistic health counselor, Alex Jamieson. Throughout this discussion, they answer many powerful questions that unveil their understanding and raw experience of positive thinking, true happiness and success. More than this, Bob and Alex give us an insightful look into Intentions, Concerns, Boundaries and Dreams – the fluid practice of getting to Hell Yes!

In today’s episode, we get to sit down with Facilitator, Advisor and Connector, Bob Gower, as well as natural foods Chef, author, speaker, TV personality, and holistic health counselor, Alex Jamieson. Throughout this discussion, they answer many powerful questions that unveil their understanding and raw experience of positive thinking, true happiness and success. More than this, Bob and Alex give us an insightful look into Intentions, Concerns, Boundaries and Dreams – the fluid practice of getting to Hell Yes!

]]>In today’s episode, we get to sit down with Facilitator, Advisor and Connector, Bob Gower, as well as natural foods Chef, author, speaker, TV personality, and holistic health counselor, Alex Jamieson. Throughout this discussion, they answer many powerful questions that unveil their understanding and raw experience of positive thinking, true happiness and success. More than this, Bob and Alex give us an insightful look into Intentions, Concerns, Boundaries and Dreams – the fluid practice of getting to Hell Yes!

In today’s episode, we get to sit down with Facilitator, Advisor and Connector, Bob Gower, as well as natural foods Chef, author, speaker, TV personality, and holistic health counselor, Alex Jamieson. Throughout this discussion, they answer many powerful questions that unveil their understanding and raw experience of positive thinking, true happiness and success. More than this, Bob and Alex give us an insightful look into Intentions, Concerns, Boundaries and Dreams – the fluid practice of getting to Hell Yes!

]]>In today’s episode, we get to sit down with Facilitator, Advisor and Connector, Bob Gower, as well as natural foods Chef, author, speaker, TV personality, and holistic health counselor, Alex Jamieson. Throughout this discussion, they answer many powerful questions that unveil their understanding and raw experience of positive thinking, true happiness and success. More than this, Bob and Alex give us an insightful look into Intentions, Concerns, Boundaries and Dreams – the fluid practice of getting to Hell Yes!

In today’s episode, we get to sit down with Facilitator, Advisor and Connector, Bob Gower, as well as natural foods Chef, author, speaker, TV personality, and holistic health counselor, Alex Jamieson. Throughout this discussion, they answer many powerful questions that unveil their understanding and raw experience of positive thinking, true happiness and success. More than this, Bob and Alex give us an insightful look into Intentions, Concerns, Boundaries and Dreams – the fluid practice of getting to Hell Yes!

]]>cleanNonono00:54:24sriniThe Art and Science of Decision Engineering with Michelle Florendohttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/art-science-decision-engineering-michelle-florendo/
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:11:42 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7289Human Behavior,Peak PerformanceIn this episode, coach, speaker and decision analyst, Michelle Florendo, unfolds the science and emotions that we as humans typically encounter when making decisions. Michelle takes us through an empowering wisdom-filled episode on how to use tough decisions as opportunities to better our lives while avoiding the often anxiety-inducing habits of decision making. You can be certain that this and many more truly profound lessons can be learned from what Michelle has to share today.

Michelle Florendo is a coach specializing in helping people unlock the power of good decision making to craft fulfilling careers and happier lives. Learn more about her work at MichelleFlorendo.com

One of the things that I realized would be a good practice for myself is really leaning into dealing with uncertainty and viewing uncertainty for what it is and not like always thinking that it’s about the risk of bad things happening. And what really solidified that for me was plane travel. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this before. Travel roulette is basically when you pack a bag. You go to the airport without a destination in mind. And upon arrival at the airport you book a ticket for under 500 bucks and you go and I remember having a lot of anxiety but I figured you know this this would be a good thing even if things turn out bad it be good for developing resilience and doing this like being in the moment and roll with things thing that my husband does.

And that trip turned out way better than anything I could have ever planned and that’s when I realized you know we we get into this habit of you know this like reaction of fear whenever uncertainty comes up because we’re so conditioned to fear the bad things that may happen that we forget that uncertainty is also the possibility of wonderful things happening.

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Mashup what can be supportive thanks for taking the time to join us. Thanks for having me. Super excited to be

Here is likely to have heard were one of a long line of amazing people who has been referred by our friend and former domestic creative guests are back.

So I really thrilled to have you here. I want to start by asking you where in the world did you grow up. What impact did you grow up interested.

Yeah so I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area in a suburb largely populated by immigrant families. And so my parents are both immigrants. They immigrated from the Philippines though interestingly enough not at the same time. So they met here in the states and I’d say that had a huge influence on just my entire arc. So my dad I feel like a very typical immigrant story. She grew up in a farming community in the Philippines and his education and his his grit and his willingness to work hard was his ticket out of that type of life. And then my mom said I should say my dad immigrated here as an adult. And then my mom actually immigrated to the U.S. when she was 12. So she spent a number of her formative years here and as a result my parents have very different parenting philosophies.

So my mom had a tiger mom who basically told her everything she could and could not do. To this day my mom doesn’t know how to ride a bike because my grandmother said it was not ladylike for her to do.

And so as a result my mom decided to parent the way that she was not parenting. She wanted to do all of the things that her mom did not do. So she’s very encouraging really wanted to help me and my sister find our passions and be able to follow that.

Whereas my dad on the other hand was more like a typical immigrant like you know the path to success is is my impression of my dad. The path to success is to study hard go to college graduate and then get that good job. I have air quotes around the job and I think as a result of growing up in a largely immigrant community that that common narrative that my dad had won out. I think it also doesn’t help that I’m a first born so I felt that responsibility to do the right thing. And a little bit of the risk averse audience that comes with that. Like oh I need to be the one who does all the right things who does all the things that I’m supposed to do. And it also probably didn’t help that I was I was good at as good at that plan. Like go to school study hard. I still remember when I was in the first grade I came home with my first report card and had good grades. And I remember my dad kneeling in front of me in our family kitchen saying wow wow this is such good grades.

You’re so smart you should go to Stanford which is like the closest college.

So not only was it you know really great school but also immigrant parents dreams that keep my kids close to home.

And as a first grader is like Ok dad that sounds like a great idea and and did all that.

So I worked hard in school I did all the things I was supposed to do. I got into Stanford. I. Ok this was the one departure from the plan I was not a doctor or a lawyer. Did not haha. I went a little risky route.

I’d studied engineering decision engineering to be precise and then went out and got that you know quote unquote good job in management consulting. And I thought I had made it right. Those are all the things we’re supposed to do. And I quickly realized that that was not it does not all I had to do was not even the you know having made it because I was miserable and so I feel like in the 15 years since then it’s been a lot of just reconciling that I think a very common narrative that many people grew up with like to study hard go to school get a good job and this other piece that my mom tried to instill in me that didn’t start kind of winning out or having that voice in my head until I was in that job.

I was miserable. Wait a minute. What now.

Wow that raises numerous questions. One is when you have one current who are actually grew up here particularly in formative years. Another

Who immigrated Bauers preservation inherited the culture of work in that sense because I’m the opposite of that in the sense that both my parents were immigrants both of them were raised in India.

So there is some sense of preservation of their culture.

I wonder how that happens in this situation and what part of the loss because of the. Well I think one thing I’ll say I lost the language actually I didn’t lose it because I never had it.

My parents made an intentional decision not to teach my sister and I. Any of them native Philippine languages they knew. I think from my dad him immigrating as an adult. I think he caught a lot of flak for his accent and so he wanted us to have perfect native English growing up.

But as far as the cultural heritage I think I had the great fortune again living in an immigrant Kimmey with also a quite large especially at our church Filipino population.

And so I felt like I learned I learned a lot of those folk songs folk dances cultural things that were layered into our religion actually outside of the home which is kind of interesting for me to realize now that you ask that question because now as a mother and my husband and I come from two different cultural heritages were also actively thinking about this right now to what are the things we want to pass on and what are the things that we don’t like I know my mom did not want to pass on the Tiger Mom mission.

I think that was great for her but I think I lost them thanks to this.

It’s interesting because I think I can relate to this narrative particularly when you get that because it’s pretty much the one that I was given but on the self I saw that it was so bad that I was like OK there’s no way that this is like. But I wonder you said are you going to have a sister.

I feel like with my parents I was the experiment with everything off it and basically fix it with my sister. So yeah I remember my dad didn’t understand that. When you’re in seventh grade kids are popular for wearing clothes until we were in San Antonio Texas and some kids that I didn’t know in a town 200 miles away from where we were started making fun of my crappy shoes from Payless my dad said you know it. I said I don’t know that at all 200 miles from home and he finally got a sense for it but with my sister it was like oh yeah whatever we’ve dealt with this before because I think that it was such an anomaly to them to have that you saying it’s because it was so foreign to them. And I wonder what kind of an experience it was for your sibling. I mean I

Imagine she.

Well I’ll say the first thing that comes to mind when I think about what my sister’s experience must have been like and even some of my cousins because since my mom immigrated when she was younger a lot of her siblings are here in the Bay Area as well. And I had a lot of cousins around growing up as a second oldest. And I remember my older cousin when we were adults saying Michelle do you realize how difficult it was growing up with you. And again I think it was is part a blessing and a curse that I was good at that narrative right of doing doing well in school I think thankfully for my sister. We had my mom who and my sister was not not good at like all those things that. My dad kind of laid out. And again since my mom had had the Tiger Mom experience with her mom I think was able to be more supportive and encouraging for my sister as my sister tried to carve out what what does future look like for her.

But I think it also made me realize you know one of the reasons why I think a lot of people try to or at least especially people who do sometimes are kind of good at the plan get stuck on it is because if you’re good at it it’s easy. It’s a plan to do this step and this stuff and this stuff than this stuff. Maybe after you graduate and get that good job then you go on to get your MBA.

I think the rest and going this is path of following your passions or following what makes you happy is so much more unstructured. And I think that’s also part of the reason why my mom even though she had that intention for us is a lot harder to follow that path because you kind of have to chart it for yourself which is kind of the reason why I’ve become so passionate about this decision making piece because that’s ultimately what it is.

Learning how to make decisions that align with what you want which is not necessarily something we’re taught in school or Coaldale.

So one of the things I wonder is you know we’re particularly immigrants we were raised with that pursue success to know and narrative and yet so many people come to this realization that you have.

And why does it take that.

Why is it that I think that the probably you know we were talking about decision making and I recently wrote this piece on Medium saying that this is the greatest lie that you’ve ever been told. And I said the greatest lie that we’re ever told is that you have to choose from the options that are put in front of you. And I wonder why we do that and why we reinforce this narrative. Part of me thinks it’s because it works for the majority of people like nobody would argue that the results of your life were a disaster because you made these decisions. So I wonder why is it that we make decisions that ultimately end up being so dissatisfying.

I mean there’s there’s a few things there right. All right. So why is it that we make decisions that become so misaligned with what we actually want.

I think part of it is that we. So what my my personal rant is. Why is it especially now that I have a two year. Why is it that we ask kids so early. What do you want to be when you grow up. Yeah that adequate information on the options or what is it that they want. What is it that they enjoy. What is it that they’re good at. And so from a very early age where we’re locking people into these. Like you said existing options forgetting that especially in this day and age the jobs that are going to exist by the time they come of age are not even created yet. And maybe that’s what’s at the root of this before the economy that we’re in right now. There were only a handful of choices and a handful of things that you could be. Whereas technology and this economy has enabled an explosion of not only different roles you can take but also just different ways you can make a living. And we haven’t adapted our way of charter our paths forward. Again like before when there are limited choices yes. OK just pick one and you go for it. Now where a lot of the economy is fueled by creativity and innovation. We haven’t actually helped people think about how they might chart the way forward by making being intentional about how they evaluate their decisions.

Like so Sebaggala at Stanford when I’m studying decision engineering Ron Howard is the father of decision analysis would talk about how every single decision has three parts.

There are always options objectives and information and as a society we don’t we don’t even teach people that we only talk about the okay here are the options now choose. We don’t talk about how OK when we’re talking about options what are the ones we see obviously but also what other possibilities exist. When we talk about objectives sometimes we don’t even talk about objectives. We don’t talk about well what is it that you want. And here is this tool for how you can evaluate the options against these things that are really important to you and that you care about.

And then I also don’t think we talk about uncertainty and information that you may need or not need in a decision in a constructive way that people can process. So that decision making becomes easier. Like I feel like my personal mission is to be able to to help people understand how how they can view decisions in a way that is much more generative than necessarily just closing doors and picking one well we’ll come back to all of that.

Having heard my interviews you know that we’re barely scratching the surface so I definitely want to go deeper into all of that. But before we go there as somebody who was raised with the sort of you know cultural narrative of success go to college go to the best damn college you go to. Not only did you get into one of the best colleges in the country then you went and got a MBA at Berkeley which is my alma mater having kind of you know been funneled through what I guess would be effectively the elitist of all educational institutions. How do you think about the way that you’re going to educate your own child.

The honest truth.

I hope that higher education as it exists today will be disrupted by the time my son is of college age. So he’s 2 now we have 16 years to come up with a new better different system. But I feel like when I think about how I want him to move through the world I feel like the most important thing is actually possibly not necessarily the things he’s going to be learning in school like reading writing maths are all OK nice things that help you do other things. But the biggest thing that I hope he learns is how is it that he can create value for himself and for others.

So speaking of of how you create value. One if you had to go back to Stanford and you were asked to redesign the structure of the education system what would you change.

Oh I feel like my head is exploding right now because I also spent a little bit in education. I mean I

As wonderful as Stanford is of a place Berkeley too. I I really hate this like elitist exclusive structure that exists especially at the college level because it creates so much stress on people who are trying to do like do all the things that they’re supposed to do so that they can attain this endpoint.

But it isn’t the point. I wish that there were ways that we could talk about like how is it that we create value for ourselves and for society throughout the entire schooling of children from day 1 instead of 0 oh just follow these steps to get to this Edwy just follow the step to get to this end point.

That’s again in the world that we live in. We don’t know what then. There is no endpoint actual. And so why are we teaching kids that that’s the way to move through life.

Well I think that in my mind what I realized as an adult which you know now is rising 20 years after graduation is that life isn’t linear. Even though it taught to believe that it is in school I think the other thing. And DSIL probably piss off any of my Berkely friends who were listening to this or even Berkeley students. But the thing that struck me most was you know I recognize this in retrospect. I stood for a place that’s known for being so damn liberal. It has a hell of a breeding ground for conformity. It. I mean everybody basically works at investment banks and management consulting firms or goes to prestigious grad schools like these are your options choose them or die is kind of the narrative.

Yeah.

And I think it’s to your earlier question it then it’s no wonder that then people who have been taught that this is the way to live life arrive at a point where they thought oh wait. And I say that are I supposed to have beat it I guess.

Nice to have you hit that point and they realize the answer’s no. Because it isn’t linear. There is no

While.

Let’s do this let’s shift gears. But one more question about this. We’re talking about the idea of the creation of value and we currently live in a capitalist society where I think for a large degree value is measured entirely based on how much wealth or how much money you can create.

Yeah I was writing something that was just you know sometimes I get any sort of light rumination narratives and I was like yeah you might have written a book you know about the virtues of creating for an audience of one but your publisher probably a hell of a lot happier if it’s sold to an audience of millions. Yeah because as far as you’re concerned you’re like they’re not in the business of making dreams come true they’re in the business of selling books. That’s the harsh reality of where we live. So I wonder you know when you think about value creation in society you think about the fact that we as an economic system primarily use capitalism. How do you think the value creation is going to change with time which is a total land mine and rabbit hole of a question.

I mean again I think if this is I’ll be honest this has been part of my struggle with my education decision engineering.

This is very much based on the economic model that yes all the things that are all things that are valuable are measurable and that I think is a paradigm that we have to get our heads out of.

Like how is it that that we can think about value in ways that are not measured by units of utility. I don’t have an answer for that. But I do have hope and faith that if if we are if we continue to commit to not falling into the trap of thinking that money is the end all be all.

The only thing worth measuring that we can find a path forward.

Now so you mentioned the word faith and I know earlier you spoke about church and I wonder what role does faith religion spirituality play in your life as an adult.

I feel like I’m a boomerang Catholic. I’ll say that I was raised in the Catholic tradition which is very common for Filipinos. And then I I left the church for a while because I was really angry at things that the institutional church was doing and standing for. And then I returned again because of this faith piece I think you know up until that point when I was executing against the plan right because I was God at it I thought that Oh yeah everything that comes about in my life is due to my own effort which is really like tempting and sexy thing to be able to believe because if things are going well it’s like oh yeah I did this and then I realized how incredibly limiting that is to think that everything that happens is just a product of my effort.

And I realized that if I wanted to think beyond the things that you know like I could see possible it would require an act of faith.

And there have been some things that have happened in my life that was kind of like the universe just dropping a bomb on these and hey it’s not just all about you hear something like magically wonderful things that you want and never thought possible. But here again deliver it to you anyway.

And I think it was in those moments that I realized. Maybe it’s not just about me and my effort. And there is something else here at work that I realize the importance of faith I think also part of this does work in decision engineering and understanding and transforming how I think about uncertainty and risk. It’s been humbling and has also brought me back so you talked about faith in moments when good things happen.

What about faith in moments when bad things happen.

Because I remember going through a really really really rough period some sometime in 2014 and I met with an old professor from business school and she mentioned the idea of legend and she said I wonder you know has the possibility of exploring this or religious lens occurred to us. No. To be honest it’s made me question the existence of God.

And I think what comes to mind right now. For me it’s something that that I’m going through right now.

The guy I talked about it briefly on answers podcast Beth and going through some things. And I have no idea how they’re going to turn out.

Doctors can’t even tell me how things are going to turn out and I choose thay they thought I’m not even talking about like the faith that things are going to turn out.

But the faith that I I can move through this and not necessarily if this is happening for a reason. Buyat that there is something greater than myself going on here. Because of my commitment to what’s important to me which is to enjoy being in the present. And I think the alternative of not having faith is not consistent with how I want to be experiencing life.

Let’s do this. We’ll shift gears and let’s start talking specifically about this idea decision making. One you know what sort of planted the seed for your interest in this particular subject area and two can you expand on that decision making framework of options informations objectives and talk about the role that risk and uncertainty plays in all of those which I realize the answer to that question could be 20 minutes.

Let’s say it so what got me interested in decision making at first. Well to be honest I kind of fell into it. I went into college knowing I wanted to study engineering just because I was good at math and science and I didn’t want to become a doctor or a lawyer. So it seemed to be the next safest tech or good guy like that person with the parents. And as I was evaluating the different engineering disciplines that were available. One of the things that came up was industrial engineering which I wasn’t familiar with before. But someone told me was the engineering of efficiency like doing things better faster maximizing things optimizing things which all sound really interesting to me. And within that field there there was an area of study called decision engineering. And it’s really interesting because whenever I tell people that I studied decision engineering at Stanford the first response is always whoa that’s a they didn’t know that was a thing. And then the second response is wait so can you teach me how to make better decisions because I’m horrible at it. I hate decision making. And I find it really interesting because there’s there’s a lot of the energy around decisions like there’s so much stuff there like. And especially since we’re on this Fokus it’s interesting because I think the hang ups people have around decisions are the same hang ups that keep people from being able to be creative and generative like there’s this overwhelming there’s just so much going on so many different things devaluate and people can feel really lost like not knowing which way to go or like where is the compass for being able to find direction.

There’s a lot of fear of doing it wrong. And again like having been someone who who really liked the idea of planning and optimization and like oh well decision engineering seems like a really interesting discipline to learn some tools for how how to deal with that. And so like I talked about before crux of any decision there are options objectives and information and some of the key things that this discipline has taught me about each of those things is you know like you said earlier we were taught ever since we were little that oh decisions are just about choosing from the options that are put in front of you. And one of the pieces that comes up in decision engineering is really questioning that. OK you may have these options that seem obvious but what else is there like whenever people say oh I don’t have a choice. Not true. I actually did have a choice. There’s probably another option that you just really really really didn’t like but it’s useful to be able to call out that option and really push yourself to look at what are the things that are not immediately coming to mind.

Because I’ll give you broader consideration side and ability to make better decisions or a decision that you may not have made otherwise if you’re just looking at the obvious in the in the objectives piece.

Again I don’t think we as a society Adley give people enough leeway and time to think about well what what are your objectives. So when I talk about objectives it’s you know what is it that you want in the outcome and even going beyond that. Okay other things that you can think of the things that you want in your outcome what is really the things you want versus what your parents have told you you should want or society is telling you. But can you sift through those things. Grealy what are the objectives that that matter when we are evaluating these various options. Then there’s the information piece information being you know what is information that we have on how each one of those options may deliver on the objectives that we have. And this is where where I feel like I’ve done the most growth not actually during the time I was studying decision engineering but in the time afterwards because one thing I’ll say is decision engineering is usually a field reserved for the business world because it’s based on economic principles on measurable things and I’ve been unpacking well what are some of the tools from this discipline that are applicable to human decision making.

Because we’re not robots and. I think going back to this information piece we are never going to have all the information and that’s something that has taken me a lot of time to come to grips with. Like I’m like I’m the type of person who loves knowing for the sake of knowing even if it’s not going to change anything. And that was kind of a really interesting concept for me to learn information has value. If it’s going to help you make a different decision or change a course of action. If it’s not really then that information doesn’t have much value and like that and that was really top of mind for me like when when as I’m going through these things because initially actually I’ll just summarize in a nutshell about a year ago. This time last year I was sitting in the E.R. and ICU and a doctor was holding up a picture of an x ray saying yeah. So you have this growth in your throat that’s not supposed to be there.

We don’t know what it is and we won’t know until we can operate on you and of course immediately I go into freak out mode.

I feel like gosh what.

And then my training reminded me wait a minute is there anything that you can actually do with that information. Does that information actually going to change anything right now. Except for make you feel that are incredibly afraid. And so it’s been interesting at least for me really thinking about oh ok what is the information especially in this age where information so readily available. What is the information that we actually need. What is information that actually makes a difference and where where can we keep moving forward without information. Because it may not actually make a difference. Right now the decision isn’t actually to be made right now. And that’s the other thing decisions are not about what we cannot control.

They are about what we can and so in that moment of not having any control over what was happening.

The one thing I could control was well how did I want to process and view the situation. From a place of fear

Replace a. Wow. So many more questions. From that. So

I think that the thing that struck me most is we have a framework that’s based on economic principles. But then you have to deal with the fact that we’re human and we’re not logical we’re emotional. So why do we make bad decisions. And what role do emotions playing those decisions. When is it appropriate for emotions to play a role and when do we when it is more appropriate. Not for the I’m not a player.

Well first I want to take them on this piece around bad decisions because what exactly makes for a bad decision. Is it when things don’t turn out well. And in that case I wouldn’t say that that’s a bad decision because what a lot of people confound is are a lot of people think that the quality of a decision is the same as the quality of an outcome. Where as that’s not actually true. So for example OK is really cloudy in the Bay Area today and it almost looks like it could rain let’s say that I look up a weather report and it says 15 to 20 percent chance of rain and I’m deciding whether or not to take my son out to the park and because 15 to 20 percent. Not that high.

I go to the park and then it starts raining was that a bad decision. I mean I didn’t decide for it to rain. I just made a decision.

Given the information that I had and so I think a lot of people feel like oh my gosh I made this bad decision where they may not have actually made a bad decision and may just have been that the things outside of their control turned out in a way that they didn’t quite like. And so I think even first before we start talking about you know bad decisions by me make bad decisions. We should look at you know how are we defining the quality of a decision. Are we falling into this trap of thinking that oh the quality the outcome directly reflects the quality of that decision. Are we seeing that there are actually distinct for one another. Wow.

So you framed that in the example of you know creating an umbrella and having it rain. But what about when the stakes are a lot higher when it’s potentially an intimate relationship or a significant investment in your business. In those cases you know I think that it becomes like you said very easy to conflate the cost of the decision with the quality of the outcome because if you make a substantial investment and you lose it you can say Well that was a shitty decision. I’d say it’s a shitty outcome but also I think you know we

We place a lot. I think a lot of people have this anxiety around decision making because we also think that there’s just one going to make this one decision and. Then that’s it. And then the rest of our lives are based on that decision and we forget that. Ok so things didn’t turn out likely due to some kind of like resolution of and and certainty that we could not have known in advance anyway whenever I remember those three parts of any decision the you know your options objectives information you have on the two intersect.

Whenever any of those change you have an opportunity to make a new decision.

And I think we forget that.

So let’s say that the outcome is not to your liking. You know it could be a failure of some sort it could be a relationship that doesn’t work and so often I think the of tendency at that moment is to basically be consumed by grief for whatever it is like you kind of go at least for me. I have a tendency to go into these sort of spirals. So I wonder you know back to that question of how do we know when emotion is an appropriate as an appropriate place in our decision. Are there places where your emotions should be completely left out of a decision that should be completely objective or is that even humanly possible.

So I would say it’s it’s not humanly possible to keep emotions out of it. But I do think we can get more curious about what where are the emotions coming from. And so you know some of the tools that I use from decision engineering are useful for being able to just like get everything that’s in our hands on paper so that you can just see what’s going on and then if emotions come up at least having things on paper or having things somewhere where you can look at things and then comparing and contrasting them to what’s going on emotionally usually helps my clients uncover well what is the emotion they are really like.

Is is the fear really coming from like the fact that this may not turn out good or is the fear coming from just simply that this may not have been done before.

Got I think another thing that a lot of people confuse is uncertainty and risk. Risk is more of the possibility of bad things that will happen. RAZ uncertainty is simply the possibility of things that we don’t anticipate or we don’t know will happen happening. Like I remember three years ago I had an I might call it a tangent here but like I said I very much historically have been very much a planner like I’m a risk averse person. And so when people are just like oh you’re not very much so were listed. I’m a risk averse person but I’m willing to take calculated risks or at least evaluate uncertainties for what they are. And I think one of the practices that helped them do that was. Playing travel roulette three years ago. So usually I’m one of those people who totally needs to have a plan planned out the entire itinerary whenever we go traveling. And my husband totally broke me up that habit because he’s a very very different person he’s more in the moment with the flow which was crazy making when we were first dating.

I’m learning to have more of that and end one of the things that I realized would be a good practice for myself is really leaning into dealing with uncertainty and viewing uncertainty for what it is and not like always thinking that it’s about the risk of bad things happening. And what really solidified that for me was plane travel. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this before. Travel roulette is basically when you pack a bag. You go to the airport without a destination in mind. And then upon arrival at the airport you book a ticket for under what five hundred bucks and you go and I remember having a lot of anxiety but I figured you know this.

This would be a good thing even if things turned out bad it be good for developing resilience and doing this like being in the moment and roll with things thing that my husband does.

And that trip turned out way better than anything I could have ever planned.

And that’s when I realized you know we we get into this habit of you know this like reaction of fear whenever uncertainty comes up because we’re so conditioned to fear the bad things that may happen that we forget that uncertainty is also the possibility of wonderful things happening.

So anyways backwards tracking that was a really long tangent. But your original question was emotion. What when is it appropriate for them to play into our decision making and when is it not appropriate. I mean as humans it’s impossible to extract emotion and get rid of the emotion entirely. I think of emotion as just another data point but we shouldn’t react to the emotion simply Oh fear bad.

Really take the time to get curious about where is it really coming from.

One other question that came from me as you were talking about that and the trouble rillette so so much of what we do when we make decisions is about prediction of a future outcome. And yet I can’t tell you the number of people who have come back to me over and over again on the show and talked about the role the presence plays in our well-being and how much happier we are when we’re present and I think I wrote this somewhere in an article I said you know anxiety is basically trying to control what you can control. Depression is trying to change what you can’t change. How do you balance that need to be present with the ability to make decisions that will have a positive impact on your future. Because I can make short term decisions that potentially could have long term costs and vice versa.

I think it’s possible. When I think about decision making it’s an act of being able to exercise your power of choice in a way that aligns with what you want it or what’s most important to you. And I think it’s possible to be in the present and at the same time envision the future. I know that sounds like totally opposed but I think that’s being able to acknowledge that. Both are possible to be in the present and also have that hope for the future. Ken had the key to

Being happy. Right.

Because if are always focused on the future we don’t get to enjoy the present for not far always focused on the present. We may not make good decisions for the future. I don’t think I answered your question at all. It has very like the big questions but that’s just what came to mind.

I think you did it. Yeah well. As far as. What you teach. Well I guess mean with a 2 year old I’m guessing he’s not making any decisions but

Your parents are listening to this.

What do you think that they should be teaching their kids about decision making as somebody who has this perspective.

I I’m thinking about a time a couple years ago I was hanging out with my husband’s niece and we were playing a card game and she had to decide which one of the cards she was going to put down the deck. And of course because she didn’t know what what cards we had she didn’t know what the outcome was going to be.

I could see on her little face she’s like 8 years old. But little like wrinkles between the eyebrows and just like the wrinkles in her forehead stressing out so much about this decision.

And I remember saying Sasha just make the best decision you can with the information you have.

Now she took a deep breath and chose.

And I think that’s that’s the thing like focusing on the piece that we can control and acknowledging the part that we don’t and can’t control. I think the most important lesson to be teaching especially kids because otherwise it can be so stressful. Right.

I think for me particularly Sarah when it comes to creative work particularly with this last book Can the message of a largely being that idea that you really don’t have a lot of control over how people will respond to your creative work.

But I think what’s great about you and some of the work that you’ve put out there is focusing on that process. I like focus on what is it that you can control. I can write a thousand words every day. I don’t know what’s going to come out necessarily. I don’t know how people respond to it but that’s the piece that I can control. Be at peace with I think that’s been a really empowering message for you to share with people.

Wow. I can see why Sarah referred to as a yes so I have one last question. I know you’ve heard me ask. What do you think it is that makes somebody or something unmistakable.

I think you know someone who’s mistake unmistakable is someone someone who chooses to exercise their agency in the world. They’re choosing to use this piece that they can control like someone who instead of letting the world happen to them chooses to make the world happen at least a piece of the world that they can make happen. I think it’s someone who’s developed that resilience to serve what they cannot control and the times that matter most identify what it is that they can control. And keep choosing what is important to the every single day because ultimately decisions don’t have to be hard especially if we can develop the discipline of listening deeply to ourselves and cultivate the courage to exercise our power of choice where we can.

We can do anything.

While I think that makes a really fitting and poetic end to a really insightful conversation. Where can people find out more about you.

You’re working every night they can find me. Michelle Florindo dot com or I’ll say the only social media channel that I tend to be on is on LinkedIn so they can follow me there as well.

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One of the things that I realized would be a good practice for myself is really leaning into dealing with uncertainty and viewing uncertainty for what it is and not like always thinking that it’s about the risk of bad things happening. And what really solidified that for me was plane travel. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this before. Travel roulette is basically when you pack a bag. You go to the airport without a destination in mind. And upon arrival at the airport you book a ticket for under 500 bucks and you go and I remember having a lot of anxiety but I figured you know this this would be a good thing even if things turn out bad it be good for developing resilience and doing this like being in the moment and roll with things thing that my husband does.

And that trip turned out way better than anything I could have ever planned and that’s when I realized you know we we get into this habit of you know this like reaction of fear whenever uncertainty comes up because we’re so conditioned to fear the bad things that may happen that we forget that uncertainty is also the possibility of wonderful things happening.

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Mashup what can be supportive thanks for taking the time to join us. Thanks for having me. Super excited to be

Here is likely to have heard were one of a long line of amazing people who has been referred by our friend and former domestic creative guests are back.

So I really thrilled to have you here. I want to start by asking you where in the world did you grow up. What impact did you grow up interested.

Yeah so I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area in a suburb largely populated by immigrant families. And so my parents are both immigrants. They immigrated from the Philippines though interestingly enough not at the same time. So they met here in the states and I’d say that had a huge influence on just my entire arc. So my dad I feel like a very typical immigrant story. She grew up in a farming community in the Philippines and his education and his his grit and his willingness to work hard was his ticket out of that type of life. And then my mom said I should say my dad immigrated here as an adult. And then my mom actually immigrated to the U.S. when she was 12. So she spent a number of her formative years here and as a result my parents have very different parenting philosophies.

So my mom had a tiger mom who basically told her everything she could and could not do. To this day my mom doesn’t know how to ride a bike because my grandmother said it was not ladylike for her to do.

And so as a result my mom decided to parent the way that she was not parenting. She wanted to do all of the things that her mom did not do. So she’s very encouraging really wanted to help me and my sister find our passions and be able to follow that.

Whereas my dad on the other hand was more like a typical immigrant like you know the path to success is is my impression of my dad. The path to success is to study hard go to college graduate and then get that good job. I have air quotes around the job and I think as a result of growing up in a largely immigrant community that that common narrative that my dad had won out. I think it also doesn’t help that I’m a first born so I felt that responsibility to do the right thing. And a little bit of the risk averse audience that comes with that. Like oh I need to be the one who does all the right things who does all the things that I’m supposed to do. And it also probably didn’t help that I was I was good at as good at that plan. Like go to school study hard. I still remember when I was in the first grade I came home with my first report card and had good grades. And I remember my dad kneeling in front of me in our family kitchen saying wow wow this is such good grades.

You’re so smart you should go to Stanford which is like the closest college.

So not only was it you know really great school but also immigrant parents dreams that keep my kids close to home.

And as a first grader is like Ok dad that sounds like a great idea and and did all that.

So I worked hard in school I did all the things I was supposed to do. I got into Stanford. I. Ok this was the one departure from the plan I was not a doctor or a lawyer. Did not haha. I went a little risky route.

I’d studied engineering decision engineering to be precise and then went out and got that you know quote unquote good job in management consulting. And I thought I had made it right. Those are all the things we’re supposed to do. And I quickly realized that that was not it does not all I had to do was not even the you know having made it because I was miserable and so I feel like in the 15 years since then it’s been a lot of just reconciling that I think a very common narrative that many people grew up with like to study hard go to school get a good job and this other piece that my mom tried to instill in me that didn’t start kind of winning out or having that voice in my head until I was in that job.

I was miserable. Wait a minute. What now.

Wow that raises numerous questions. One is when you have one current who are actually grew up here particularly in formative years. Another

Who immigrated Bauers preservation inherited the culture of work in that sense because I’m the opposite of that in the sense that both my parents were immigrants both of them were raised in India.

So there is some sense of preservation of their culture.

I wonder how that happens in this situation and what part of the loss because of the. Well I think one thing I’ll say I lost the language actually I didn’t lose it because I never had it.

My parents made an intentional decision not to teach my sister and I. Any of them native Philippine languages they knew. I think from my dad him immigrating as an adult. I think he caught a lot of flak for his accent and so he wanted us to have perfect native English growing up.

But as far as the cultural heritage I think I had the great fortune again living in an immigrant Kimmey with also a quite large especially at our church Filipino population.

And so I felt like I learned I learned a lot of those folk songs folk dances cultural things that were layered into our religion actually outside of the home which is kind of interesting for me to realize now that you ask that question because now as a mother and my husband and I come from two different cultural heritages were also actively thinking about this right now to what are the things we want to pass on and what are the things that we don’t like I know my mom did not want to pass on the Tiger Mom mission.

I think that was great for her but I think I lost them thanks to this.

It’s interesting because I think I can relate to this narrative particularly when you get that because it’s pretty much the one that I was given but on the self I saw that it was so bad that I was like OK there’s no way that this is like. But I wonder you said are you going to have a sister.

I feel like with my parents I was the experiment with everything off it and basically fix it with my sister. So yeah I remember my dad didn’t understand that. When you’re in seventh grade kids are popular for wearing clothes until we were in San Antonio Texas and some kids that I didn’t know in a town 200 miles away from where we were started making fun of my crappy shoes from Payless my dad said you know it. I said I don’t know that at all 200 miles from home and he finally got a sense for it but with my sister it was like oh yeah whatever we’ve dealt with this before because I think that it was such an anomaly to them to have that you saying it’s because it was so foreign to them. And I wonder what kind of an experience it was for your sibling. I mean I

Imagine she.

Well I’ll say the first thing that comes to mind when I think about what my sister’s experience must have been like and even some of my cousins because since my mom immigrated when she was younger a lot of her siblings are here in the Bay Area as well. And I had a lot of cousins around growing up as a second oldest. And I remember my older cousin when we were adults saying Michelle do you realize how difficult it was growing up with you. And again I think it was is part a blessing and a curse that I was good at that narrative right of doing doing well in school I think thankfully for my sister. We had my mom who and my sister was not not good at like all those things that. My dad kind of laid out. And again since my mom had had the Tiger Mom experience with her mom I think was able to be more supportive and encouraging for my sister as my sister tried to carve out what what does future look like for her.

But I think it also made me realize you know one of the reasons why I think a lot of people try to or at least especially people who do sometimes are kind of good at the plan get stuck on it is because if you’re good at it it’s easy. It’s a plan to do this step and this stuff and this stuff than this stuff. Maybe after you graduate and get that good job then you go on to get your MBA.

I think the rest and going this is path of following your passions or following what makes you happy is so much more unstructured. And I think that’s also part of the reason why my mom even though she had that intention for us is a lot harder to follow that path because you kind of have to chart it for yourself which is kind of the reason why I’ve become so passionate about this decision making piece because that’s ultimately what it is.

Learning how to make decisions that align with what you want which is not necessarily something we’re taught in school or Coaldale.

So one of the things I wonder is you know we’re particularly immigrants we were raised with that pursue success to know and narrative and yet so many people come to this realization that you have.

And why does it take that.

Why is it that I think that the probably you know we were talking about decision making and I recently wrote this piece on Medium saying that this is the greatest lie that you’ve ever been told. And I said the greatest lie that we’re ever told is that you have to choose from the options that are put in front of you. And I wonder why we do that and why we reinforce this narrative. Part of me thinks it’s because it works for the majority of people like nobody would argue that the results of your life were a disaster because you made these decisions. So I wonder why is it that we make decisions that ultimately end up being so dissatisfying.

I mean there’s there’s a few things there right. All right. So why is it that we make decisions that become so misaligned with what we actually want.

I think part of it is that we. So what my my personal rant is. Why is it especially now that I have a two year. Why is it that we ask kids so early. What do you want to be when you grow up. Yeah that adequate information on the options or what is it that they want. What is it that they enjoy. What is it that they’re good at. And so from a very early age where we’re locking people into these. Like you said existing options forgetting that especially in this day and age the jobs that are going to exist by the time they come of age are not even created yet. And maybe that’s what’s at the root of this before the economy that we’re in right now. There were only a handful of choices and a handful of things that you could be. Whereas technology and this economy has enabled an explosion of not only different roles you can take but also just different ways you can make a living. And we haven’t adapted our way of charter our paths forward. Again like before when there are limited choices yes. OK just pick one and you go for it. Now where a lot of the economy is fueled by creativity and innovation. We haven’t actually helped people think about how they might chart the way forward by making being intentional about how they evaluate their decisions.

Like so Sebaggala at Stanford when I’m studying decision engineering Ron Howard is the father of decision analysis would talk about how every single decision has three parts.

There are always options objectives and information and as a society we don’t we don’t even teach people that we only talk about the okay here are the options now choose. We don’t talk about how OK when we’re talking about options what are the ones we see obviously but also what other possibilities exist. When we talk about objectives sometimes we don’t even talk about objectives. We don’t talk about well what is it that you want. And here is this tool for how you can evaluate the options against these things that are really important to you and that you care about.

And then I also don’t think we talk about uncertainty and information that you may need or not need in a decision in a constructive way that people can process. So that decision making becomes easier. Like I feel like my personal mission is to be able to to help people understand how how they can view decisions in a way that is much more generative than necessarily just closing doors and picking one well we’ll come back to all of that.

Having heard my interviews you know that we’re barely scratching the surface so I definitely want to go deeper into all of that. But before we go there as somebody who was raised with the sort of you know cultural narrative of success go to college go to the best damn college you go to. Not only did you get into one of the best colleges in the country then you went and got a MBA at Berkeley which is my alma mater having kind of you know been funneled through what I guess would be effectively the elitist of all educational institutions. How do you think about the way that you’re going to educate your own child.

The honest truth.

I hope that higher education as it exists today will be disrupted by the time my son is of college age. So he’s 2 now we have 16 years to come up with a new better different system. But I feel like when I think about how I want him to move through the world I feel like the most important thing is actually possibly not necessarily the things he’s going to be learning in school like reading writing maths are all OK nice things that help you do other things. But the biggest thing that I hope he learns is how is it that he can create value for himself and for others.

So speaking of of how you create value. One if you had to go back to Stanford and you were asked to redesign the structure of the education system what would you change.

Oh I feel like my head is exploding right now because I also spent a little bit in education. I mean I

As wonderful as Stanford is of a place Berkeley too. I I really hate this like elitist exclusive structure that exists especially at the college level because it creates so much stress on people who are trying to do like do all the things that they’re supposed to do so that they can attain this endpoint.

But it isn’t the point. I wish that there were ways that we could talk about like how is it that we create value for ourselves and for society throughout the entire schooling of children from day 1 instead of 0 oh just follow these steps to get to this Edwy just follow the step to get to this end point.

That’s again in the world that we live in. We don’t know what then. There is no endpoint actual. And so why are we teaching kids that that’s the way to move through life.

Well I think that in my mind what I realized as an adult which you know now is rising 20 years after graduation is that life isn’t linear. Even though it taught to believe that it is in school I think the other thing. And DSIL probably piss off any of my Berkely friends who were listening to this or even Berkeley students. But the thing that struck me most was you know I recognize this in retrospect. I stood for a place that’s known for being so damn liberal. It has a hell of a breeding ground for conformity. It. I mean everybody basically works at investment banks and management consulting firms or goes to prestigious grad schools like these are your options choose them or die is kind of the narrative.

Yeah.

And I think it’s to your earlier question it then it’s no wonder that then people who have been taught that this is the way to live life arrive at a point where they thought oh wait. And I say that are I supposed to have beat it I guess.

Nice to have you hit that point and they realize the answer’s no. Because it isn’t linear. There is no

While.

Let’s do this let’s shift gears. But one more question about this. We’re talking about the idea of the creation of value and we currently live in a capitalist society where I think for a large degree value is measured entirely based on how much wealth or how much money you can create.

Yeah I was writing something that was just you know sometimes I get any sort of light rumination narratives and I was like yeah you might have written a book you know about the virtues of creating for an audience of one but your publisher probably a hell of a lot happier if it’s sold to an audience of millions. Yeah because as far as you’re concerned you’re like they’re not in the business of making dreams come true they’re in the business of selling books. That’s the harsh reality of where we live. So I wonder you know when you think about value creation in society you think about the fact that we as an economic system primarily use capitalism. How do you think the value creation is going to change with time which is a total land mine and rabbit hole of a question.

I mean again I think if this is I’ll be honest this has been part of my struggle with my education decision engineering.

This is very much based on the economic model that yes all the things that are all things that are valuable are measurable and that I think is a paradigm that we have to get our heads out of.

Like how is it that that we can think about value in ways that are not measured by units of utility. I don’t have an answer for that. But I do have hope and faith that if if we are if we continue to commit to not falling into the trap of thinking that money is the end all be all.

The only thing worth measuring that we can find a path forward.

Now so you mentioned the word faith and I know earlier you spoke about church and I wonder what role does faith religion spirituality play in your life as an adult.

I feel like I’m a boomerang Catholic. I’ll say that I was raised in the Catholic tradition which is very common for Filipinos. And then I I left the church for a while because I was really angry at things that the institutional church was doing and standing for. And then I returned again because of this faith piece I think you know up until that point when I was executing against the plan right because I was God at it I thought that Oh yeah everything that comes about in my life is due to my own effort which is really like tempting and sexy thing to be able to believe because if things are going well it’s like oh yeah I did this and then I realized how incredibly limiting that is to think that everything that happens is just a product of my effort.

And I realized that if I wanted to think beyond the things that you know like I could see possible it would require an act of faith.

And there have been some things that have happened in my life that was kind of like the universe just dropping a bomb on these and hey it’s not just all about you hear something like magically wonderful things that you want and never thought possible. But here again deliver it to you anyway.

And I think it was in those moments that I realized. Maybe it’s not just about me and my effort. And there is something else here at work that I realize the importance of faith I think also part of this does work in decision engineering and understanding and transforming how I think about uncertainty and risk. It’s been humbling and has also brought me back so you talked about faith in moments when good things happen.

What about faith in moments when bad things happen.

Because I remember going through a really really really rough period some sometime in 2014 and I met with an old professor from business school and she mentioned the idea of legend and she said I wonder you know has the possibility of exploring this or religious lens occurred to us. No. To be honest it’s made me question the existence of God.

And I think what comes to mind right now. For me it’s something that that I’m going through right now.

The guy I talked about it briefly on answers podcast Beth and going through some things. And I have no idea how they’re going to turn out.

Doctors can’t even tell me how things are going to turn out and I choose thay they thought I’m not even talking about like the faith that things are going to turn out.

But the faith that I I can move through this and not necessarily if this is happening for a reason. Buyat that there is something greater than myself going on here. Because of my commitment to what’s important to me which is to enjoy being in the present. And I think the alternative of not having faith is not consistent with how I want to be experiencing life.

Let’s do this. We’ll shift gears and let’s start talking specifically about this idea decision making. One you know what sort of planted the seed for your interest in this particular subject area and two can you expand on that decision making framework of options informations objectives and talk about the role that risk and uncertainty plays in all of those which I realize the answer to that question could be 20 minutes.

Let’s say it so what got me interested in decision making at first. Well to be honest I kind of fell into it. I went into college knowing I wanted to study engineering just because I was good at math and science and I didn’t want to become a doctor or a lawyer. So it seemed to be the next safest tech or good guy like that person with the parents. And as I was evaluating the different engineering disciplines that were available. One of the things that came up was industrial engineering which I wasn’t familiar with before. But someone told me was the engineering of efficiency like doing things better faster maximizing things optimizing things which all sound really interesting to me. And within that field there there was an area of study called decision engineering. And it’s really interesting because whenever I tell people that I studied decision engineering at Stanford the first response is always whoa that’s a they didn’t know that was a thing. And then the second response is wait so can you teach me how to make better decisions because I’m horrible at it. I hate decision making. And I find it really interesting because there’s there’s a lot of the energy around decisions like there’s so much stuff there like. And especially since we’re on this Fokus it’s interesting because I think the hang ups people have around decisions are the same hang ups that keep people from being able to be creative and generative like there’s this overwhelming there’s just so much going on so many different things devaluate and people can feel really lost like not knowing which way to go or like where is the compass for being able to find direction.

There’s a lot of fear of doing it wrong. And again like having been someone who who really liked the idea of planning and optimization and like oh well decision engineering seems like a really interesting discipline to learn some tools for how how to deal with that. And so like I talked about before crux of any decision there are options objectives and information and some of the key things that this discipline has taught me about each of those things is you know like you said earlier we were taught ever since we were little that oh decisions are just about choosing from the options that are put in front of you. And one of the pieces that comes up in decision engineering is really questioning that. OK you may have these options that seem obvious but what else is there like whenever people say oh I don’t have a choice. Not true. I actually did have a choice. There’s probably another option that you just really really really didn’t like but it’s useful to be able to call out that option and really push yourself to look at what are the things that are not immediately coming to mind.

Because I’ll give you broader consideration side and ability to make better decisions or a decision that you may not have made otherwise if you’re just looking at the obvious in the in the objectives piece.

Again I don’t think we as a society Adley give people enough leeway and time to think about well what what are your objectives. So when I talk about objectives it’s you know what is it that you want in the outcome and even going beyond that. Okay other things that you can think of the things that you want in your outcome what is really the things you want versus what your parents have told you you should want or society is telling you. But can you sift through those things. Grealy what are the objectives that that matter when we are evaluating these various options. Then there’s the information piece information being you know what is information that we have on how each one of those options may deliver on the objectives that we have. And this is where where I feel like I’ve done the most growth not actually during the time I was studying decision engineering but in the time afterwards because one thing I’ll say is decision engineering is usually a field reserved for the business world because it’s based on economic principles on measurable things and I’ve been unpacking well what are some of the tools from this discipline that are applicable to human decision making.

Because we’re not robots and. I think going back to this information piece we are never going to have all the information and that’s something that has taken me a lot of time to come to grips with. Like I’m like I’m the type of person who loves knowing for the sake of knowing even if it’s not going to change anything. And that was kind of a really interesting concept for me to learn information has value. If it’s going to help you make a different decision or change a course of action. If it’s not really then that information doesn’t have much value and like that and that was really top of mind for me like when when as I’m going through these things because initially actually I’ll just summarize in a nutshell about a year ago. This time last year I was sitting in the E.R. and ICU and a doctor was holding up a picture of an x ray saying yeah. So you have this growth in your throat that’s not supposed to be there.

We don’t know what it is and we won’t know until we can operate on you and of course immediately I go into freak out mode.

I feel like gosh what.

And then my training reminded me wait a minute is there anything that you can actually do with that information. Does that information actually going to change anything right now. Except for make you feel that are incredibly afraid. And so it’s been interesting at least for me really thinking about oh ok what is the information especially in this age where information so readily available. What is the information that we actually need. What is information that actually makes a difference and where where can we keep moving forward without information. Because it may not actually make a difference. Right now the decision isn’t actually to be made right now. And that’s the other thing decisions are not about what we cannot control.

They are about what we can and so in that moment of not having any control over what was happening.

The one thing I could control was well how did I want to process and view the situation. From a place of fear

Replace a. Wow. So many more questions. From that. So

I think that the thing that struck me most is we have a framework that’s based on economic principles. But then you have to deal with the fact that we’re human and we’re not logical we’re emotional. So why do we make bad decisions. And what role do emotions playing those decisions. When is it appropriate for emotions to play a role and when do we when it is more appropriate. Not for the I’m not a player.

Well first I want to take them on this piece around bad decisions because what exactly makes for a bad decision. Is it when things don’t turn out well. And in that case I wouldn’t say that that’s a bad decision because what a lot of people confound is are a lot of people think that the quality of a decision is the same as the quality of an outcome. Where as that’s not actually true. So for example OK is really cloudy in the Bay Area today and it almost looks like it could rain let’s say that I look up a weather report and it says 15 to 20 percent chance of rain and I’m deciding whether or not to take my son out to the park and because 15 to 20 percent. Not that high.

I go to the park and then it starts raining was that a bad decision. I mean I didn’t decide for it to rain. I just made a decision.

Given the information that I had and so I think a lot of people feel like oh my gosh I made this bad decision where they may not have actually made a bad decision and may just have been that the things outside of their control turned out in a way that they didn’t quite like. And so I think even first before we start talking about you know bad decisions by me make bad decisions. We should look at you know how are we defining the quality of a decision. Are we falling into this trap of thinking that oh the quality the outcome directly reflects the quality of that decision. Are we seeing that there are actually distinct for one another. Wow.

So you framed that in the example of you know creating an umbrella and having it rain. But what about when the stakes are a lot higher when it’s potentially an intimate relationship or a significant investment in your business. In those cases you know I think that it becomes like you said very easy to conflate the cost of the decision with the quality of the outcome because if you make a substantial investment and you lose it you can say Well that was a shitty decision. I’d say it’s a shitty outcome but also I think you know we

We place a lot. I think a lot of people have this anxiety around decision making because we also think that there’s just one going to make this one decision and. Then that’s it. And then the rest of our lives are based on that decision and we forget that. Ok so things didn’t turn out likely due to some kind of like resolution of and and certainty that we could not have known in advance anyway whenever I remember those three parts of any decision the you know your options objectives information you have on the two intersect.

Whenever any of those change you have an opportunity to make a new decision.

And I think we forget that.

So let’s say that the outcome is not to your liking. You know it could be a failure of some sort it could be a relationship that doesn’t work and so often I think the of tendency at that moment is to basically be consumed by grief for whatever it is like you kind of go at least for me. I have a tendency to go into these sort of spirals. So I wonder you know back to that question of how do we know when emotion is an appropriate as an appropriate place in our decision. Are there places where your emotions should be completely left out of a decision that should be completely objective or is that even humanly possible.

So I would say it’s it’s not humanly possible to keep emotions out of it. But I do think we can get more curious about what where are the emotions coming from. And so you know some of the tools that I use from decision engineering are useful for being able to just like get everything that’s in our hands on paper so that you can just see what’s going on and then if emotions come up at least having things on paper or having things somewhere where you can look at things and then comparing and contrasting them to what’s going on emotionally usually helps my clients uncover well what is the emotion they are really like.

Is is the fear really coming from like the fact that this may not turn out good or is the fear coming from just simply that this may not have been done before.

Got I think another thing that a lot of people confuse is uncertainty and risk. Risk is more of the possibility of bad things that will happen. RAZ uncertainty is simply the possibility of things that we don’t anticipate or we don’t know will happen happening. Like I remember three years ago I had an I might call it a tangent here but like I said I very much historically have been very much a planner like I’m a risk averse person. And so when people are just like oh you’re not very much so were listed. I’m a risk averse person but I’m willing to take calculated risks or at least evaluate uncertainties for what they are. And I think one of the practices that helped them do that was. Playing travel roulette three years ago. So usually I’m one of those people who totally needs to have a plan planned out the entire itinerary whenever we go traveling. And my husband totally broke me up that habit because he’s a very very different person he’s more in the moment with the flow which was crazy making when we were first dating.

I’m learning to have more of that and end one of the things that I realized would be a good practice for myself is really leaning into dealing with uncertainty and viewing uncertainty for what it is and not like always thinking that it’s about the risk of bad things happening. And what really solidified that for me was plane travel. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this before. Travel roulette is basically when you pack a bag. You go to the airport without a destination in mind. And then upon arrival at the airport you book a ticket for under what five hundred bucks and you go and I remember having a lot of anxiety but I figured you know this.

This would be a good thing even if things turned out bad it be good for developing resilience and doing this like being in the moment and roll with things thing that my husband does.

And that trip turned out way better than anything I could have ever planned.

And that’s when I realized you know we we get into this habit of you know this like reaction of fear whenever uncertainty comes up because we’re so conditioned to fear the bad things that may happen that we forget that uncertainty is also the possibility of wonderful things happening.

So anyways backwards tracking that was a really long tangent. But your original question was emotion. What when is it appropriate for them to play into our decision making and when is it not appropriate. I mean as humans it’s impossible to extract emotion and get rid of the emotion entirely. I think of emotion as just another data point but we shouldn’t react to the emotion simply Oh fear bad.

Really take the time to get curious about where is it really coming from.

One other question that came from me as you were talking about that and the trouble rillette so so much of what we do when we make decisions is about prediction of a future outcome. And yet I can’t tell you the number of people who have come back to me over and over again on the show and talked about the role the presence plays in our well-being and how much happier we are when we’re present and I think I wrote this somewhere in an article I said you know anxiety is basically trying to control what you can control. Depression is trying to change what you can’t change. How do you balance that need to be present with the ability to make decisions that will have a positive impact on your future. Because I can make short term decisions that potentially could have long term costs and vice versa.

I think it’s possible. When I think about decision making it’s an act of being able to exercise your power of choice in a way that aligns with what you want it or what’s most important to you. And I think it’s possible to be in the present and at the same time envision the future. I know that sounds like totally opposed but I think that’s being able to acknowledge that. Both are possible to be in the present and also have that hope for the future. Ken had the key to

Being happy. Right.

Because if are always focused on the future we don’t get to enjoy the present for not far always focused on the present. We may not make good decisions for the future. I don’t think I answered your question at all. It has very like the big questions but that’s just what came to mind.

I think you did it. Yeah well. As far as. What you teach. Well I guess mean with a 2 year old I’m guessing he’s not making any decisions but

Your parents are listening to this.

What do you think that they should be teaching their kids about decision making as somebody who has this perspective.

I I’m thinking about a time a couple years ago I was hanging out with my husband’s niece and we were playing a card game and she had to decide which one of the cards she was going to put down the deck. And of course because she didn’t know what what cards we had she didn’t know what the outcome was going to be.

I could see on her little face she’s like 8 years old. But little like wrinkles between the eyebrows and just like the wrinkles in her forehead stressing out so much about this decision.

And I remember saying Sasha just make the best decision you can with the information you have.

Now she took a deep breath and chose.

And I think that’s that’s the thing like focusing on the piece that we can control and acknowledging the part that we don’t and can’t control. I think the most important lesson to be teaching especially kids because otherwise it can be so stressful. Right.

I think for me particularly Sarah when it comes to creative work particularly with this last book Can the message of a largely being that idea that you really don’t have a lot of control over how people will respond to your creative work.

But I think what’s great about you and some of the work that you’ve put out there is focusing on that process. I like focus on what is it that you can control. I can write a thousand words every day. I don’t know what’s going to come out necessarily. I don’t know how people respond to it but that’s the piece that I can control. Be at peace with I think that’s been a really empowering message for you to share with people.

Wow. I can see why Sarah referred to as a yes so I have one last question. I know you’ve heard me ask. What do you think it is that makes somebody or something unmistakable.

I think you know someone who’s mistake unmistakable is someone someone who chooses to exercise their agency in the world. They’re choosing to use this piece that they can control like someone who instead of letting the world happen to them chooses to make the world happen at least a piece of the world that they can make happen. I think it’s someone who’s developed that resilience to serve what they cannot control and the times that matter most identify what it is that they can control. And keep choosing what is important to the every single day because ultimately decisions don’t have to be hard especially if we can develop the discipline of listening deeply to ourselves and cultivate the courage to exercise our power of choice where we can.

We can do anything.

While I think that makes a really fitting and poetic end to a really insightful conversation. Where can people find out more about you.

You’re working every night they can find me. Michelle Florindo dot com or I’ll say the only social media channel that I tend to be on is on LinkedIn so they can follow me there as well.

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One of the things that I realized would be a good practice for myself is really leaning into dealing with uncertainty and viewing uncertainty for what it is and not like always thinking that it’s about the risk of bad things happening. And what really solidified that for me was plane travel. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this before. Travel roulette is basically when you pack a bag. You go to the airport without a destination in mind. And upon arrival at the airport you book a ticket for under 500 bucks and you go and I remember having a lot of anxiety but I figured you know this this would be a good thing even if things turn out bad it be good for developing resilience and doing this like being in the moment and roll with things thing that my husband does.

And that trip turned out way better than anything I could have ever planned and that’s when I realized you know we we get into this habit of you know this like reaction of fear whenever uncertainty comes up because we’re so conditioned to fear the bad things that may happen that we forget that uncertainty is also the possibility of wonderful things happening.

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Here is likely to have heard were one of a long line of amazing people who has been referred by our friend and former domestic creative guests are back.

So I really thrilled to have you here. I want to start by asking you where in the world did you grow up. What impact did you grow up interested.

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In this episode, coach, speaker and decision analyst, Michelle Florendo, unfolds the science and emotions that we as humans typically encounter when making decisions. Michelle takes us through an empowering wisdom-filled episode on how to use tough decisions as opportunities to better our lives while avoiding the often anxiety-inducing habits of decision making. You can be certain that this and many more truly profound lessons can be learned from what Michelle has to share today.

Michelle Florendo is a coach specializing in helping people unlock the power of good decision making to craft fulfilling careers and happier lives. Learn more about her work at MichelleFlorendo.com

One of the things that I realized would be a good practice for myself is really leaning into dealing with uncertainty and viewing uncertainty for what it is and not like always thinking that it’s about the risk of bad things happening. And what really solidified that for me was plane travel. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this before. Travel roulette is basically when you pack a bag. You go to the airport without a destination in mind. And upon arrival at the airport you book a ticket for under 500 bucks and you go and I remember having a lot of anxiety but I figured you know this this would be a good thing even if things turn out bad it be good for developing resilience and doing this like being in the moment and roll with things thing that my husband does.

And that trip turned out way better than anything I could have ever planned and that’s when I realized you know we we get into this habit of you know this like reaction of fear whenever uncertainty comes up because we’re so conditioned to fear the bad things that may happen that we forget that uncertainty is also the possibility of wonderful things happening.

I’m Srini out and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements built thriving businesses written best selling books and created insanely interesting. For more check out our 500 episode archive unmistakable creative doc

Mashup what can be supportive thanks for taking the time to join us. Thanks for having me. Super excited to be

Here is likely to have heard were one of a long line of amazing people who has been referred by our friend and former domestic creative guests are back.

So I really thrilled to have you here. I want to start by asking you where in the world did you grow up. What impact did you grow up interested.

Yeah so I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area in a suburb large]]>
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Do you remember those wild-eyed dreams you had when you were a kid? What if you could make some of them come true as an adult? Motivational cartoonist Stephanie Halligan talks about how we can use our creativity to make hour childhood dreams come true as adults.

Srini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

Steph Halligan is a motivational cartoonist and creator ofArt To Self, where she delivers daily inspiration to your inbox.

Do you remember those wild-eyed dreams you had when you were a kid? What if you could make some of them come true as an adult? Motivational cartoonist Stephanie Halligan talks about how we can use our creativity to make hour childhood dreams come true as adults.

Srini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

Steph Halligan is a motivational cartoonist and creator ofArt To Self, where she delivers daily inspiration to your inbox.

]]>Do you remember those wild-eyed dreams you had when you were a kid? What if you could make some of them come true as an adult? Motivational cartoonist Stephanie Halligan talks about how we can use our creativity to make hour childhood dreams come true as adults.

Srini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

Steph Halligan is a motivational cartoonist and creator ofArt To Self, where she delivers daily inspiration to your inbox.

Do you remember those wild-eyed dreams you had when you were a kid? What if you could make some of them come true as an adult? Motivational cartoonist Stephanie Halligan talks about how we can use our creativity to make hour childhood dreams come true as adults.

Srini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

Steph Halligan is a motivational cartoonist and creator ofArt To Self, where she delivers daily inspiration to your inbox.

]]>cleanNonono00:48:40sriniWilliam Deresiewicz: The Miseducation of the American Elitehttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/william-deresiewicz-miseducation-american-elite/
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:50:47 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7252Human Behavior,Peak PerformanceEducation is a hot topic right now, and William Deresiewicz has studied it for a very long time. He specifically has looked at how America’s elite have been educated, and he’s noticed there are a lot of problems in the system. He discusses education being more than a path to a paycheck, ne0liberalism, and much more.

Education is a hot topic right now, and William Deresiewicz has studied it for a very long time. He specifically has looked at how America’s elite have been educated, and he’s noticed there are a lot of problems in the system. He discusses education being more than a path to a paycheck, ne0liberalism, and much more.

]]>Education is a hot topic right now, and William Deresiewicz has studied it for a very long time. He specifically has looked at how America’s elite have been educated, and he’s noticed there are a lot of problems in the system. He discusses education being more than a path to a paycheck, ne0liberalism, and much more.

Education is a hot topic right now, and William Deresiewicz has studied it for a very long time. He specifically has looked at how America’s elite have been educated, and he’s noticed there are a lot of problems in the system. He discusses education being more than a path to a paycheck, ne0liberalism, and much more.

]]>Education is a hot topic right now, and William Deresiewicz has studied it for a very long time. He specifically has looked at how America’s elite have been educated, and he’s noticed there are a lot of problems in the system. He discusses education being more than a path to a paycheck, ne0liberalism, and much more.

Education is a hot topic right now, and William Deresiewicz has studied it for a very long time. He specifically has looked at how America’s elite have been educated, and he’s noticed there are a lot of problems in the system. He discusses education being more than a path to a paycheck, ne0liberalism, and much more.

]]>cleanNonono00:53:50sriniAndrew Yang: Inside the Mind of a 2020 Presidential Candidatehttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/andrew-yang-inside-mind-2020-presidential-candidate/
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:22:41 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7240Human Behavior,Peak PerformanceHow does an entrepreneur go from starting a business to wanting to run for president? Andrew Yang discusses the journey his life has taken from “scrappy entrepreneur-type” to a 2020 presidential candidate. He talks about what sparked his interest in running for office, the growing student loan debt, the shifting technological and economical policies, and much more.

Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, the founder of Venture for America, and is a 2020 presidential candidate for the Democratic party. You can interact with him and follow him on Twitter @AndrewYangVFA

How does an entrepreneur go from starting a business to wanting to run for president? Andrew Yang discusses the journey his life has taken from “scrappy entrepreneur-type” to a 2020 presidential candidate. He talks about what sparked his interest in running for office, the growing student loan debt, the shifting technological and economical policies, and much more.

Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, the founder of Venture for America, and is a 2020 presidential candidate for the Democratic party. You can interact with him and follow him on Twitter @AndrewYangVFA

]]>How does an entrepreneur go from starting a business to wanting to run for president? Andrew Yang discusses the journey his life has taken from “scrappy entrepreneur-type” to a 2020 presidential candidate. He talks about what sparked his interest in running for office, the growing student loan debt, the shifting technological and economical policies, and much more.

Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, the founder of Venture for America, and is a 2020 presidential candidate for the Democratic party. You can interact with him and follow him on Twitter @AndrewYangVFA

How does an entrepreneur go from starting a business to wanting to run for president? Andrew Yang discusses the journey his life has taken from “scrappy entrepreneur-type” to a 2020 presidential candidate. He talks about what sparked his interest in running for office, the growing student loan debt, the shifting technological and economical policies, and much more.

Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, the founder of Venture for America, and is a 2020 presidential candidate for the Democratic party. You can interact with him and follow him on Twitter @AndrewYangVFA

]]>How does an entrepreneur go from starting a business to wanting to run for president? Andrew Yang discusses the journey his life has taken from “scrappy entrepreneur-type” to a 2020 presidential candidate. He talks about what sparked his interest in running for office, the growing student loan debt, the shifting technological and economical policies, and much more.

Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, the founder of Venture for America, and is a 2020 presidential candidate for the Democratic party. You can interact with him and follow him on Twitter @AndrewYangVFA

How does an entrepreneur go from starting a business to wanting to run for president? Andrew Yang discusses the journey his life has taken from “scrappy entrepreneur-type” to a 2020 presidential candidate. He talks about what sparked his interest in running for office, the growing student loan debt, the shifting technological and economical policies, and much more.

Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, the founder of Venture for America, and is a 2020 presidential candidate for the Democratic party. You can interact with him and follow him on Twitter @AndrewYangVFA

]]>cleanNonono00:52:47sriniEmylee Williams: Navigating Entrepreneurial Uncertaintyhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/emylee-williams-navigating-entrepreneurial-uncertainty/
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:41:14 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7164Human Behavior,Peak PerformanceAre you in the middle of your “dark night of the soul” moment of your life? Emylee Williams can relate, and she’s in the process of navigating the choppy waters of entrepreneurship. Emylee shares her story about marriage, adoption, hitting a wall in your own business, and much more.

Emylee Williams is the co-founder of the Think Creative Collective. She and her husband are adoptive parents to a little girl.

Are you in the middle of your “dark night of the soul” moment of your life? Emylee Williams can relate, and she’s in the process of navigating the choppy waters of entrepreneurship. Emylee shares her story about marriage, adoption, hitting a wall in your own business, and much more.

Emylee Williams is the co-founder of the Think Creative Collective. She and her husband are adoptive parents to a little girl.

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Emylee Williams is the co-founder of the Think Creative Collective. She and her husband are adoptive parents to a little girl.

Are you in the middle of your “dark night of the soul” moment of your life? Emylee Williams can relate, and she’s in the process of navigating the choppy waters of entrepreneurship. Emylee shares her story about marriage, adoption, hitting a wall in your own business, and much more.

Emylee Williams is the co-founder of the Think Creative Collective. She and her husband are adoptive parents to a little girl.

]]>Are you in the middle of your “dark night of the soul” moment of your life? Emylee Williams can relate, and she’s in the process of navigating the choppy waters of entrepreneurship. Emylee shares her story about marriage, adoption, hitting a wall in your own business, and much more.

Emylee Williams is the co-founder of the Think Creative Collective. She and her husband are adoptive parents to a little girl.

Are you in the middle of your “dark night of the soul” moment of your life? Emylee Williams can relate, and she’s in the process of navigating the choppy waters of entrepreneurship. Emylee shares her story about marriage, adoption, hitting a wall in your own business, and much more.

Emylee Williams is the co-founder of the Think Creative Collective. She and her husband are adoptive parents to a little girl.

]]>cleanNonono00:46:39sriniNas Tavakoli-Far: An Exploration of Gender Dynamicshttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/nas-tavakoli-far-exploration-gender-dynamics/
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 11:21:35 +0000srinihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7117Human Behavior,Peak PerformanceGender dynamics are a very complex issue that we’ve only really begun to grapple with over the last several decades. Nas Tavakoli-Far makes studying gender roles and how we all communicate and interact with each other one of her main focuses, and she’s learned a great deal through her discussions. She shares her ideas on that, life in an immigrant family, media, and much more.

Gender dynamics are a very complex issue that we’ve only really begun to grapple with over the last several decades. Nas Tavakoli-Far makes studying gender roles and how we all communicate and interact with each other one of her main focuses, and she’s learned a great deal through her discussions. She shares her ideas on that, life in an immigrant family, media, and much more.

]]>Gender dynamics are a very complex issue that we’ve only really begun to grapple with over the last several decades. Nas Tavakoli-Far makes studying gender roles and how we all communicate and interact with each other one of her main focuses, and she’s learned a great deal through her discussions. She shares her ideas on that, life in an immigrant family, media, and much more.

Gender dynamics are a very complex issue that we’ve only really begun to grapple with over the last several decades. Nas Tavakoli-Far makes studying gender roles and how we all communicate and interact with each other one of her main focuses, and she’s learned a great deal through her discussions. She shares her ideas on that, life in an immigrant family, media, and much more.

]]>Gender dynamics are a very complex issue that we’ve only really begun to grapple with over the last several decades. Nas Tavakoli-Far makes studying gender roles and how we all communicate and interact with each other one of her main focuses, and she’s learned a great deal through her discussions. She shares her ideas on that, life in an immigrant family, media, and much more.

Gender dynamics are a very complex issue that we’ve only really begun to grapple with over the last several decades. Nas Tavakoli-Far makes studying gender roles and how we all communicate and interact with each other one of her main focuses, and she’s learned a great deal through her discussions. She shares her ideas on that, life in an immigrant family, media, and much more.

]]>cleanNonono00:54:00sriniAn Audience of One Excerpthttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/audience-one-excerpt/
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:45:13 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7032Human Behavior,Peak PerformanceSrini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

Srini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

]]>Srini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

Srini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

]]>Srini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

Srini’s newest book, An Audience of One, is out now! Take a listen to an excerpt from Srini’s latest book, and if you have an Audible subscription, you can now download the audiobook of An Audience of One for just one credit!

]]>cleanNonono00:05:45sriniBrian Portnoy: The Geometry of Wealthhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/brian-portnoy-geometry-wealth/
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:25:56 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7016Human Behavior,Peak PerformanceMoney is a sensitive topic for many. How can those in poverty or those who live paycheck to paycheck still find joy? And how are billionaires sometimes some of the unhappiest people? Brian Portnoy has studied finances and money, and he’s mastered the art of simplifying the complex discussions and topics around money. He discusses the difference between being rich and being wealthy, finding joy in your circumstances, and much more.

Hello Fresh – Want to cook healthy meals but don’t know where to start? Turn to Hello Fresh. All their ingredients come pre-measured, and those ingredients are fresh and responsibly chosen. For $60 off, visit hellofresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code “unmistakable60.”

Money is a sensitive topic for many. How can those in poverty or those who live paycheck to paycheck still find joy? And how are billionaires sometimes some of the unhappiest people? Brian Portnoy has studied finances and money, and he’s mastered the art of simplifying the complex discussions and topics around money. He discusses the difference between being rich and being wealthy, finding joy in your circumstances, and much more.

Hello Fresh – Want to cook healthy meals but don’t know where to start? Turn to Hello Fresh. All their ingredients come pre-measured, and those ingredients are fresh and responsibly chosen. For $60 off, visit hellofresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code “unmistakable60.”

]]>Money is a sensitive topic for many. How can those in poverty or those who live paycheck to paycheck still find joy? And how are billionaires sometimes some of the unhappiest people? Brian Portnoy has studied finances and money, and he’s mastered the art of simplifying the complex discussions and topics around money. He discusses the difference between being rich and being wealthy, finding joy in your circumstances, and much more.

Hello Fresh – Want to cook healthy meals but don’t know where to start? Turn to Hello Fresh. All their ingredients come pre-measured, and those ingredients are fresh and responsibly chosen. For $60 off, visit hellofresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code “unmistakable60.”

Money is a sensitive topic for many. How can those in poverty or those who live paycheck to paycheck still find joy? And how are billionaires sometimes some of the unhappiest people? Brian Portnoy has studied finances and money, and he’s mastered the art of simplifying the complex discussions and topics around money. He discusses the difference between being rich and being wealthy, finding joy in your circumstances, and much more.

Hello Fresh – Want to cook healthy meals but don’t know where to start? Turn to Hello Fresh. All their ingredients come pre-measured, and those ingredients are fresh and responsibly chosen. For $60 off, visit hellofresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code “unmistakable60.”

]]>Money is a sensitive topic for many. How can those in poverty or those who live paycheck to paycheck still find joy? And how are billionaires sometimes some of the unhappiest people? Brian Portnoy has studied finances and money, and he’s mastered the art of simplifying the complex discussions and topics around money. He discusses the difference between being rich and being wealthy, finding joy in your circumstances, and much more.

Hello Fresh – Want to cook healthy meals but don’t know where to start? Turn to Hello Fresh. All their ingredients come pre-measured, and those ingredients are fresh and responsibly chosen. For $60 off, visit hellofresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code “unmistakable60.”

Money is a sensitive topic for many. How can those in poverty or those who live paycheck to paycheck still find joy? And how are billionaires sometimes some of the unhappiest people? Brian Portnoy has studied finances and money, and he’s mastered the art of simplifying the complex discussions and topics around money. He discusses the difference between being rich and being wealthy, finding joy in your circumstances, and much more.

Hello Fresh – Want to cook healthy meals but don’t know where to start? Turn to Hello Fresh. All their ingredients come pre-measured, and those ingredients are fresh and responsibly chosen. For $60 off, visit hellofresh.com/unmistakable60 and use the promo code “unmistakable60.”

]]>cleanNonono00:52:25sriniChris Bailey: How to be More Productive in a World of Distractionshttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/chris-bailey-productive-world-distractions/
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:18:30 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=7012Human Behavior,Peak PerformanceThe world we live in now is full of distractions, but not all of them are as disruptive as you might think. Chris Bailey is a productivity expert, and he’s mastered the art of being more efficient and productive despite the ever-growing list of distractions we face daily. He discusses how to find your most productive self, discovering success, and much more.

You know we all have so many data points in our past. And you know I look at everything through the lens of productivity. But you know this is what I so often find in writing about productivity is you know people want to focus more and people want to have more energy and people want to be more motivated by their work. But and so they try to look forward into the future to find ways to become more productive and more focused and more passion about what they do instead of looking behind and noticing wait. Every time I've been fired up about my work I was you know doing a podcast and maybe I should start a podcast. Every time I've been productive I've been taming distractions or have been on a deadline maybe I should find more deadlines or seek out ways to make my work a bit more threatening. You know every time I've had a ton of energy to bring to my work I've been taking a lot of breaks at work. I've been having a consistent exercise regimen or a meditation regimen maybe I should pick that back up. So yeah like you said we have all these data points but we just need to look back for them it seems weird to kind of look into the past but that's how we lift our lives up to this point and if we want to find a direction and a trajectory that's different from where we are that's more productive that's more focus that's more meaningful. I think that's a great place to start.

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Hey it's Srini. I know that you have heard me talking about my new book an audience of one. Reclaiming creativity for its own sake. So I want to tell you a little bit about the book. Have you ever heard an episode of The unmistakable creative and learned something and thought you want to apply that thing to your life and then suddenly forgot it. Well this book really is a blueprint of all the best advice that I've ever gotten from unmistakable creative guest for how to improve your habits for how to be more productive for how to avoid distractions for how to be more creative and you can download a free chapter at unmistakable creative dot com slash audience. Again that's unmistakable creative dot com slash audience and the book comes out on August 7.

Chris welcome to the unmistakable critic. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Thanks for having me. It's good to be back. This is like time. Number three.

You're one of the rare few guests that we've had back more than twice. For good reason been a big fan of your work. Loved your latest book hyperfocus which we're going to talk about in detail. But before we get into all that I want to start asking you what did your parents do for a living and what impact did that end up having on the choices that you've made with your life and your career.

But both my parents are psychologists and so so I think this is why I try to dissect my own mind so much as well as the minds of other people and how we work and how we think and the biases we have. And they're also they're also quite risk averse which you know doing what I do for a living it's quite risky to be out on your own hopefully doing things for an audience of one which turns into an audience of many. And so you know that kind of blends into what I do so I do what I do despite the fact that I'm risk averse. But I think because of the fact that my parents are weirdos and are into psychology.

Yeah. Anytime I talk to somebody who has been exposed to a wide array of sort of personal development or information about how to manage their psychology I'm always of the impression that oh you must have been raised with this like perfect subconscious programming and turned out totally normal which I'm guessing you're going to dispel that myth for me. But what are the misperceptions that we might have about the fact that you had parents who were psychologists that would make us think that you're you've been raised basically.

I think that they wanted to continue working when they came home. Just like anybody else just like if somebody is a massage therapist for an example who comes home exhausted they might not give their family therapeutic massages every night. I think a similar thing is true. And my fiance whenever she's met my parents which has been quite often she's always afraid that they're going to dissect her and read her like a book. And the truth is that they probably could. But at the same time they don't really care to because it's just more work. And so I think I think that's a misconception. You know everybody kind of needs a break and your family is so often your break. You know it's where you recharge it's where you get more energy from. And so I think there's probably a few things that's played in the background about this but you know I think it's part of it's part of my story but not a big part of my story I think.

What lessons did they pass on about managing your own psychology. What are the narratives that you are raised with around mental health. The reason that I ask this is because I know in Indian culture the sort of default narrative around anything mental health as well therapy is for crazy people. We don't do that. And I believe that for a very long time until I found myself in a therapist office at 37 and my only question was what took me so long to get here.

Yeah it's yeah the narratives around mental health. I think this is the funny and I love these questions because they're making me think immediately off the bat as opposed to reverting to the same kind of points about the book. But I think the narrative around mental health was an interesting one because the families that we have both my parents sides there they were the ones who came to my parents for help and so very much you know maybe the the family outside of my parents wasn't so open about mental health but they were quite open about mental health. I've seen a psychologist not very many good ones who have actually helped me dissect my mind more than say a meditation practice good. But it's I think that that inclination towards exploration has been in the background. I think the openness is there but I just haven't really labeled as such. I hope that makes sense.

Yeah. To make sense. Do they pass on any particular lessons about managing self-esteem dealing with things like depression or failure or setback that you think have had an impact on who you've become.

I don't think so. And it might sound like an odd answer but it's just something we didn't talk about. Yeah

I think you know they were very much about promoting how we explored our own minds but didn't necessarily practice. And I think this was a hesitation that they had in a way where they didn't want to get us to be some way. They didn't you know get us to go to a particular church. They didn't get us to try to do a particular profession. They really just said OK you know find out who you are. And so the work was on me. And so there was you know kind of little guidance but I think that kind of scrappy mental nature kind of made for that the curious nature that is hopefully behind most of the things that I do today. Yeah. Is that that curiosity that's embedded with me maybe the tendency toward connecting different disparate different disparate pieces of information might be in me to be this is a this is a fun.

Well we'll get to that at the end because I know you talked about that in the other part of this that I wonder mainly because I'm working on an outline for a new book about the impact that our social programming has on us. You mentioned that they were risk averse and despite the fact that they were risk averse you have developed a capacity for arrest. I guess the question is then how does somebody who has been raised with social programming that is not them to be risk averse develop of capacity for risk.

Despite that programming I think that you find what you're so curious and passionate about that you will do that thing. Despite all the risk. And so I think when you know that you're so into something that you absolutely have to do it despite the risk that exists that's a sign that you've found something that you're truly passionate about. And you know some people have weird curiosities. I would include myself in that mix with productivity and so you know I think I've talked about this on the show before but there was a point when I graduated university and I received a few job offers where I had the choice of going the traditional route but I thought OK I'm so much of a nerd about productivity let's experiment with this let's explore this for a year. So I declined the job site to start what became the productivity project. And I think you know doing that despite the risk. So if you're risk averse I just think you need to find that thing that you can't stop thinking about that you can't stop just persevere rating on as he do other things. You know look at how you spend your free time what you consume what you connect who you talk to people about you know that's I think a sign that you're truly into something and you know doing. Like you say doing the work for the work's sake because you can't get it off of your mind and you can't think about doing anything else.

You chose not to accept the job right after college. So I wonder what would you say to people who might be listening who are either in college right now or about to finish college about what you've just said is this is something that you think everybody should do.

Or does it. Is it something that people should consider experimenting.

What your advice is definitely not something most people should do. What I would recommend I remember as a recruiter at a big technology company for a while through university and one of the things that we looked for when we were hiring people in fact the main thing that we looked for was how people spent their spare time. And so you know these were co-op students who were in university and the ones that we hired more often than not they were in the co-op program so they actually had some real experience. But B they had signals that they were curious about what they were studying beyond just University. And so I would look to that point as a starting point how do you spend your free time if you. It's the classic question if you if any of that you know he decided to give you all the royalties from his books and I decided to as well. You win this grand contest. And you know you don't have to worry about money any more you have a constant amount rolling in. How do you spend your time when you have that total flexibility. You know some random guy leaves you in his will for 100 million dollars. How do you spend every day of your life. And chances are you would spend it how you spend a lot of your free time already. You know whether it's reading books about productivity whether it's painting whether it's illustrating whatever your art happens to be I would look at that place as a place to start. And so I would find ways and this is going way back to when I graduate this is kind of fun you know find ways and places where what you're studying intersects with what you're passionate about.

If they overlap in the Venn diagram is just a circle. Then I think you continue for to find a career in that bit but you know the thing that I've realized in talking to people in exploring these ideas is wherever you work assuming it's a job you'll get a paycheck you know. So if it's for yourself you know you'll probably struggle to get by. But chances are you'll find a way because you give yourself no choice but to find a way. So I would look at where your skills and your passions overlap and use that as this as it might be common sense advice. But at the time the graduate I thought OK I have this degree and I have these job offers but there is little overlap between these offers and what I'm actually curious and passionate about so I found the overlap. It was productivity because I have a business degree. I couldn't find a job in which I could experiment and explore. So I said you know let's decline these jobs and experiment with productivity for a year which then turned into a career in IT which is now a calling and now I get to write books and do talks around the world about this idea so it can work out this way and if you give your self no choice but to make it work out that way I think your odds are even better now.

Well I'm glad about the passion idea and I think the thing that's interesting was that you preceded by saying that there are a lot of experiments and exploration which I think often people have this idea that there they have some pre-determined passion which is ridiculous because you have no datapoints make that kind of a decision about what you're passionate about. And I think that that when you really do find something engaging that's when a passion starts to emerge.

Yeah yeah it's yeah and I think you know we all have so many data points in our past. And you know I look at everything through the lens of productivity but you know this is what I so often find in writing about productivity as you know people want to focus more and people want to have more energy and people want to be more motivated by their work. But and so they try to look forward into the future to find ways to become more productive more focused and more passion about what they do instead of looking behind and noticing weight. Every time I've been fired up about my work I was you know doing a podcast interview maybe I should start a podcast. Every time I've been productive I've been taming distractions or have been on a deadline. Maybe I should find more deadlines or seek out ways to make my work a bit more threatening. You know every time I've had a ton of energy to bring to my work I've been taking a lot of breaks at work. I've been having a consistent exercise regimen or a meditation regimen. Maybe I should pick that back up. So yeah like you said we have all these data points but we just need to look back for them it seems weird to kind of look into the past but that's how we've lived our lives up to this point and if we want to find a direction and a trajectory that's different from where we are that's more productive that's more focus that's more meaningful. I think that's a great place to start.

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We've talked to you before about how you ended up sort of wedding where you're at.

And you kind of alluded to some of that and this conversation as well. Anything early on in your life that planted your seed for this interest of all things in productivity because for somebody as young as you are and decide you know what this is what I'm passionate about. A very strange passion.

Yeah yeah really is. I think it was feeling that the absence of things to do in my mind. And I first got this feeling of absence since kind of a weird way to phrase it but it really makes sense to me I hope it makes sense to. The first place I got it was reading Getting Things Done by David Alan which the whole system is about getting the things you have to do into an external list or some sort of system so that you have more attention with which to focus throughout the day and so that was kind of the first feeling that I had. You know outside of a vacation where I was actively doing a lot of work and had a lot of projects on my plate. Mind you these aren't very important projects. These these were like these were like book reports in high school way back when but I felt the feeling of OK I have so much to do. But I know that when I work on something that everything's somewhere that I can just totally focus and become immersed in what I'm doing. And so maybe maybe there's something to this whole productivity thing. And so I think so much of products that you know we talk about doing more and accomplishing more but I think there's that deeper feeling when it comes to a product that feels like we only get a bit of that feeling sometimes and it's often when we do something and it's not on our to do list and we cross that off and it feels amazing.

But I think we could feel that way all the time like let light go whatever we're doing. That's where we need to be. And I think that's kind of the power of working with intention behind what we do where there's that in the moment confidence that where we are is where we need to be. And I've gotten this feeling totally where you know I had that total confidence once more and it was on the publicity tour for the the last book of all places you know kind of a situation that I didn't expect to find myself in but somehow managed to get there where you know we were doing 10 interviews and a day back to back to back to back. But there was somebody all the time to get me water or get me food. And you know it just as I felt hunger beginning to encroach on my mental space. There was a meal in front of me and I knew there was somebody to OK. You have to go here now and we're going to drive you here and wherever I was I knew that that was exactly where I needed to be. And I think there's that confidence embedded within intention where we feel that sense of purpose in the moment and so I think you know that feeling is worth chasing them.

So what prompted this idea of hyperfocus.

I mean obviously we know that our issues with distraction or attention are at an all time high. We've had tell Newport here to talk about deep work. So what is it planted your we'll planted the seed for your interest in this subject in particular.

Honestly and this is it's tough to admit sometimes but it's noticing how distracted that I was after publishing the first book. And you know you have to have to know that a lot of the advice that I gave in the first book centered around focusing deeper and resisting distractions and managing our attention. But yet once that book was shipped I found myself in a state of distraction where you know I couldn't focus I was surrounded by novel notifications and it was because I wasn't on a deadline of some sort. And that led me to think OK if I'm in this situation as somebody who makes his living studying and speaking about him writing about productivity maybe other people who aren't as into productivity are facing this puzzle but you know be that I wasn't seeing the full picture of just how distracted we are and how we can actually tame these distractions as opposed to falling victim to them so that was very much the impetus. And but it's worth admitting because we're all human.

So let's get into the concept in this book.

Let's start with this idea of attentional space. Can you define it for us. And talk about how we can make ours better.

Yeah for sure. So we only have so much attention to give to the world around us in the moment. And I think most of us are aware that our attention is limited blah blah blah. We've heard this a lot of times before but we don't really internalize just how limited things are. And this is this is something that surprised me as you know going through all the research that I could find on the topic. Reading these these studies from front to back I don't know. I think a lot of people say they read studies from front to back but they don't actually do it. But essentially they're very dry they're very dry. Some of these studies. But we can only hold up after we pay attention to something we can only hold so much in our mind. At one time and a lot of the ideas in the research are surrounding attention they're kind of like difficult to connect with on some level. And I found this idea of a working memory capacity how much information we can hold in our mind at one moment coming up again and again and again and again where this is the mental scratch pad that we use to hold information in our mind. It's kind of like the the equivalent of a computer's RAM. But for our brain and it's very limited this working memory capacity so I use the term attentional space as a way of framing this idea and what we do when we focus on something is we welcome it into this attentional space. But you know like you're saying it's quite limited. We can hold we used to think we can hold around seven unique chunks of information in our short term memory at one time.

But the latest research shows that we can hold around three or four chunks of information in the world is structured around this you know it's structured around threes we have sayings like good things come in threes. And the third time's the charm and celebrities die in threes and you know chunk things naturally into threes and fours. A good example of this is phone numbers which are usually you know three numbers and three numbers and four numbers we don't say you know my phone number is 1 billion seven hundred eighty four million six hundred. But as we say my phone number is 1 6 1 3 8 and you know and this is how we're meant to think. And but the idea is that because we can only fit a few things in our mind at one time we need to manage our attention more deliberately. We can't carry on two conversations at one time we can't even do two complex things at one time at best we can do a complex thing while doing something habitual like working out while listening to a podcast or doing our laundry while we listen to a podcast or an audio book. And so it's essential and we can multitask with habits so we can use the attentional space to do that. But when it comes to our most complex work it requires so much of our attention that we need to give our attention to the complex tasks that we have more completely. And so it's it's this idea that by managing this space which is just what we're focusing on in the moment we better manage our life and every aspect of it.

So I think for most people hearing that the first thought that comes to mind is the things digitally that compete for your attention and after talking with Ghazaleh who's a neuroscientist whose work I'm sure are familiar with given the nature of what you do. The thing that became very clear to me is the importance of your physical space when it comes to attention management so what did your own show about this.

Yeah one of the more illuminating things that I saw repeating and reverberating through the research maybe he was talking about this too is the way that our attention is wired because the key I think to understanding distractions is that the reason we fall victim to them is that in the moment what we see as a distraction is just a more attractive object of attention than what we truly want and ought to be doing. And the way we see it as more attractive we are attention is wired to pay attention to anything that is one of three things by default. The first is anything that is pleasurable. We pay attention to. The second is anything that is threatening we pay attention to. And the third is anything that is novel. We naturally pay attention to. There's even a novelty bias embedded within our brains prefrontal cortex where we naturally get more of a release of dopamine a pleasure chemical whenever we focus on something that our brain sees as shiny. And this aided us well in our evolutionary history because you know instead of hyper focusing on building a fire for for our tribe or village we notice to the novel threat encroaching on our environment the saber tooth tiger that was sneaking up we paid attention to the threat we dealt with the threat and we evolved to live another day and build another fire. And the same is true with the novel pleasures in our environment where we evolved to notice berries hanging from a tree or potential mates which also allowed us to reproduce and aided our chances of survival. But these days you know there are many tigers roaming the streets there are some cougars but not very many tigers.

I should have made that joke in the book but the nearest threats are few and far between. And the same brain mechanisms that allowed us to survive through today are what are hijacked from anything that we see as a distraction. And so you know you talk about the environment we anything in front of us that is more pleasurable or threatening or novel than the work that we truly want to be doing. We're going to have to resist it and expend mental energy in order to to realign our attention towards what's more pleasurable and threatening a novel. Looking around me in the office right now I have a bunch of plants. I have a meditation cushion there's my turtle Edward basking on her rock. You can't tell the gender of a turtle when you get it. And there's various things that I could pay attention to. But I've designed this space so that nothing in it is more attractive in the moment than the work that I want to be doing. And of course most of the distractions are digital. So the phone is in another room. The iPad is in another room and I don't have a distractions blocker enabled on my computer right now but it's because a conversation like this consumes most of my attention in the first place. And so you know there's kind of two environments I think that we need to manage. There's the there's the physical environment and the digital environment. And I would I would lend even more credence to the digital environments because they're where we spend so much of our time.

I mean that's why I dedicate an entire chapter to environments an audience of one because I was just blown away by the impact both physical and digital environments have on all of your behavior. You know we've talked endlessly on the show about how to deal with distractions. I don't want to spend too much time on that idea. Let's get into this concept of hyper focus and what it means how you define it and what are the benefits in terms of performance that result from hyper focus.

Yeah. So I define hyperfocus it originates in HD literature where it's when somebody with A.D.H.D brings their full attention is something I use that same term but to mean this but to mean that that complete focus but coupled with deliberate attention. So in other words we choose what we focus on before we focus on something. And I think that's a key to productivity where the most productive people they don't work on this autopilot mode in response to the work that comes our way or lands in their e-mail inbox they're the ones who choose more often throughout the day what they focus on and what they work on before they work on anything. And so I think you know one of the beautiful parts about writing this book is is that I found that our attention has these natural rhythms that we follow. You know we're focused on something our attention then gets distracted. You know people have done distractions to death. I think everything surrounding that. But distractions too is fascinating. You know so we get distracted by something internal or external to us. There are about 50 50 in terms of what derails us and then we bring our attention back so we can model some steps by which we can hyper focus on our work and become more likely to do what Cal refers to as deep work. What Mihai chix sent me high refers to this flow state where we look up at the clock. We think 20 minutes have gone by and it's three hours since we started working on something so we're more likely to get into the state when we model some steps by which we can focus more deeply on our work.

After this natural rhythm that we followed to focus better. So we start by focusing on something so we can choose what to focus on in the first place. Then you eliminate as many external and internal distractions as you can. The key is there as you can because like a hiccup there will be things that come up over the course of working that you can't take like office visitors and things like that. And then once you've laid the groundwork you've chosen something to do that's important. You've eliminated anything that is more pleasurable threatening or novel in the moment than what you want to be doing. Then you bring your attention to that intention and continually draw it back while you bring your mind back gently. And I think that's the key is that our mind wanders an awful lot against our will. It wanders around 47 percent of the day but we only notice that our mind has wandered five times every hour. And so in other words we can fall down a rabbit hole of distraction or we can get into this state of mind wandering without intention quite often and we can fall into it for quite a long time without noting knowing that we're in it. And so now that's kind of the final step is bring our attention back when we notice that it's veered off the course.

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So I think that most people understand the general concept behind this. But the thing is that what what I've learned at least is that the capacity for attention and to have it sustained over a long period of time is something that you have to practice building. I know for a fact that if you had asked me when I was 29 or 30 to sit down and to write for an hour hour and a half at the beginning of the day that would have been a tall order which is which is ironic considering how many more distractions that we have in the world today. I mean as somebody who is 80 I think for me many of these things are are necessities they're not things that I do because I'm passionate about productivity like yourself. Yeah. For me they're like if I didn't do these things I wouldn't get a damn thing done. But how do you how do people raise that capacity for her manager retention. I know you talked a bit about meditation. What are the other ways that can be done.

Well the way to raise their capacity to focus for longer is to lower how stimulated you are by default. And so we feel this sort of restlessness and boredom and anxiety whenever we transition downward from a state of high stimulation into a state of Lower stimulation that's the definition that I use for boredom is adjusting down into a state of Lower stimulation because once we're there we don't experience boredom anymore but it's as we're doing the adjusting that we feel restless and uncomfortable. And so I think this is something that is worth chipping away at over time where and a way to do this and a helpful strategy that I love is to shrink how long you'll focus for Intel you no longer feel that resistance so you know at the start if you're like me you might not be able to focus on one thing for ten minutes if you're not on a deadline and so you know shrink how long you're going to work on something until you feel no resistance to it so you know could I write for an hour today. No the thought of it puts me off. What about 45 minutes. Thirty two. Twenty fifty. Yeah I can do 15 and then refocus for 15 minutes you find that resistance level you tame distractions and then over time as you ritualize this idea you block off periods in your calendar to get into this mode over time you lower that default level of stimulation the amount of dopamine coursing through your brain because of this novelty bias that's embedded within us and you become better able to think more deeply about your work.

And this is I think something that the others miss is that it's we can't just tame distractions and then work productively every day. We need to over time chip away at this level of stimulation to think more deeply and focus on one thing for a longer period of time and so that that's what what I would suggest and this is easier said than done but it comes from its ways especially for somebody with A.D.H.D. But over time you begin to notice the quality of your attention increasing and and then you notice how much you accomplish increasing but also how meaningful your life is because this is you know kind of a big takeaway for me from this project is that the state of that. It's more than just productivity. You know we talk about how we should resist distractions because they do Rayleigh so often. But if there's one thing that shines through the research it's that the state of our attention is what determines the state of our lives if we're distracted in every moment those moment to moment experiences accumulate to create a life that is filled with distraction.

We live a distracted life and we never feel like we have a sense of purpose. But if we choose more often than not what we focus on and make that thing productive and make that thing meaningful whether it's a conversation with you on a podcast whether it's dinner with a loved one whether it's reading a good book and we bring our attention to that then our moment by moment experiences become more productive and meaningful and then those accumulate and build up to create a product in meaningful life. And I think this is you know we talk about distraction and stuff in the moment but this is the power of managing your attention is the state of your attention. Builds up to determine the state of your life. And so this just it's so worth you know you could tell I get a bit fired up by this idea. But it's because I've noticed this in myself. I feel more meaning in what I do and more fired up by what I do and it's because of these ideas.

Wow. OK so what. I'm stealing that phrase the state of your attention determines the state of your life and writing it in a blog post Albe make sure I credit you and link type refocussed even after credit me and that's fine.

I just want this idea to get out there man.

I agree because I actually wrote a piece on Medium titled that attention is the currency of achievement and I ended it by saying all you have to do is look at this one fact Mark Zuckerberg has become a billionaire by doing one thing capturing your attention.

Yeah that's so true. What is more novel or pleasurable or threatening than a Facebook notification which happens to be the same colors as as the the berries that we evolved to pay attention to maybe sex maybe sex. Yeah it's funny you know talking about mind wandering. I wrote a bit in the book about like what leads our mind to wander. And so the more immersed we become in what we're doing in the moment the the the the you know the happier we are. And the thing that leads our mind to wander the least happens to be sex. I have the list here number five and listening to music number four is playing in one way or another. You know a creative Abhi 3 is talking and investing in our relationships to is exercising and one is making. And you could do all five one time if you are

Amazing. I think that actually really makes a perfect segue to getting into this concept of scatter focus.

So you said basically when you know the section on scatter fingers I have this year in front of me and there's this quote that pulling up give me just a sec here. Actually you know what I don't have it in front of me but. Oh here it is just as hyperfocus are the most productive mode of the brain scatter focus is the most creative stat or focus can derail our productivity when our original intent is to focus. But when we're coming up with a creative solution to our problem planning for our future or making a difficult decision it's just as essential as hyperfocus can you expand on that yeah.

So distraction tends to fill the spare moment of our lives like water water is very much on my mind. It's a beautiful rainy day here in rainy Kingston Ontario Canada. It's feel so relaxing. I have the tea here. I have some water is very relaxing to talk to you it's such like a rainy day to spend indoors but it's I don't even know where I go see. Sometimes we distract yourself even even when we're really good at paying attention to things.

But yeah I think you know traffic flow is one of my favorite things to study of in addition to productivity. And if you look at how traffic flows down the highway what allows cars to continue moving forward isn't how fast they're moving. Paradoxically it's how much space exists between the cars that allows them to continue moving forward. And I would argue that our attention is much the same way now when our mind wanders against our will. It's terrible for our productivity because we're not progressing toward our intentions but when we set out time to deliberately let our mind wander and you know doing anything a bitch will get you into taking a bit longer of a shower in the morning swimming laps in the pool.

What other examples are related to water having your your morning tea or your morning coffee. This mode this mind wandering mode allows us to do three things at one time. It allows us to rest and so we expend mental energy whenever we have to regulate our attention in one way or another. This is why distractions are so exhausting. Some days we spend the entire day because we don't have a lot of work to do we just kind of bounce around between distractions and we find that we're exhausted and it's because we expend mental energy whenever we have to rely on our attention to focus on something and so we rest up when we're taking a shower swim laps or or go for a walk. But at the same time and this is a total you know kind of ball from left field because curve ball I think is the word that people use because I found that I had little energy when I was focusing all the time and I thought OK what the hell am I doing wrong. I'm choosing what to focus on I'm taming these distractions because there's a costly I'm bringing my mind back but it's because I never rested that I became burnt out and I found that I worked in a more reactive way.

And the fascinating thing that doing this led me to was where our mind wanders to when we let it rest and just just be and not focus on anything we think about the past a little bit when our mind is wandering but we only think about the past around 12 per cent of the time the rest of the time we're either thinking about the present and how to approach it more strategically or we're thinking about the future we think about when our mind is wandering we think about the present 28 percent of the time and we think about the future. 48 percent of the time and most of this time is spent on the immediate future we're thinking about what we're going to work on next we think about what we're going to do later on in the day and most of us only get this in the shower but. But it's worth getting this more often we think about our goals. Here is one step that that kind of changed the way I felt about this. This mind wandering Mogis.

Ok it's good for resting but I like focusing on things especially when they're novel and pleasurable and stuff but we think about our goals 14 times as much when our mind is wandering versus when it's paying attention to something.

And so in this way it's by paying attention to things that we actually move our work and our life forward but it's by stepping back and allowing some space between the cars that we that we set intentions that we let our mind rest and when we come up with ideas because when we connect the past to the present to the future that is when we come up with our most brilliant Eureka insights because we remember some nugget of information that we heard on a podcast a few weeks ago and we connect that to a problem that we're facing at work and then we form that connection and and bam we come up with an idea that we wouldn't have arrived at otherwise focusing on something and so I think it's it's because we bounced between these three mental destinations are past our present and our future. And we also think about the information we've accumulated and connected that this mode is so powerful and it's worth getting more of already damn.

Wow.

Well I think that makes a really fitting end to a conversation that has been packed with of insight which is what I've come to expect from you at this point. After after two of these conversations so I want to fence conversation with my final question and that is what do you think it is that makes somebody or something unmistakable

I'm going to steal this answer from Seth Godin and I'm sure he gave gave this answer when he was on the show. I've noticed that Wanya but it says something is remarkable not in the way that it's great but in the fact that people will want to remark on it and about it. And I think the best ideas have that quality. Any book or show or anything that goes viral has that quality. I think what makes something mistaken is that it's worth talking about and sharing.

And that's my answer.

Amazing. I can't thank you enough for taking the time to join us and share your story and your insights. Listeners. Where can people find out more about you your work and the new book.

Yeah. The book is called hyperfocus. It's available in bookstores everywhere wherever books are sold.

Yeah my sight is a life of productivity dotcom and yeah just thanks for. I hope I hope there's some actual nuggets and for everybody listening.

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You know we all have so many data points in our past. And you know I look at everything through the lens of productivity. But you know this is what I so often find in writing about productivity is you know people want to focus more and people want to have more energy and people want to be more motivated by their work. But and so they try to look forward into the future to find ways to become more productive and more focused and more passion about what they do instead of looking behind and noticing wait. Every time I've been fired up about my work I was you know doing a podcast and maybe I should start a podcast. Every time I've been productive I've been taming distractions or have been on a deadline maybe I should find more deadlines or seek out ways to make my work a bit more threatening. You know every time I've had a ton of energy to bring to my work I've been taking a lot of breaks at work. I've been having a consistent exercise regimen or a meditation regimen maybe I should pick that back up. So yeah like you said we have all these data points but we just need to look back for them it seems weird to kind of look into the past but that's how we lift our lives up to this point and if we want to find a direction and a trajectory that's different from where we are that's more productive that's more focus that's more meaningful. I think that's a great place to start.

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Hey it's Srini. I know that you have heard me talking about my new book an audience of one. Reclaiming creativity for its own sake. So I want to tell you a little bit about the book. Have you ever heard an episode of The unmistakable creative and learned something and thought you want to apply that thing to your life and then suddenly forgot it. Well this book really is a blueprint of all the best advice that I've ever gotten from unmistakable creative guest for how to improve your habits for how to be more productive for how to avoid distractions for how to be more creative and you can download a free chapter at unmistakable creative dot com slash audience. Again that's unmistakable creative dot com slash audience and the book comes out on August 7.

Chris welcome to the unmistakable critic. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Thanks for having me. It's good to be back. This is like time. Number three.

You're one of the rare few guests that we've had back more than twice. For good reason been a big fan of your work. Loved your latest book hyperfocus which we're going to talk about in detail. But before we get into all that I want to start asking you what did your parents do for a living and what impact did that end up having on the choices that you've made with your life and your career.

But both my parents are psychologists and so so I think this is why I try to dissect my own mind so much as well as the minds of other people and how we work and how we think and the biases we have. And they're also they're also quite risk averse which you know doing what I do for a living it's quite risky to be out on your own hopefully doing things for an audience of one which turns into an audience of many. And so you know that kind of blends into what I do so I do what I do despite the fact that I'm risk averse. But I think because of the fact that my parents are weirdos and are into psychology.

Yeah. Anytime I talk to somebody who has been exposed to a wide array of sort of personal development or information about how to manage their psychology I'm always of the impression that oh you must have been raised with this like perfect subconscious programming and turned out totally normal which I'm guessing you're going to dispel that myth for me. But what are the misperceptions that we might have about the fact that you had parents who were psychologists that would make us think that you're you've been raised basically.

I think that they wanted to continue working when they came home. Just like anybody else just like if somebody is a massage therapist for an example who comes home exhausted they might not give their family therapeutic massages every night. I think a similar thing is true. And my fiance whenever she's met my parents which has been quite often she's always afraid that they're going to dissect her and read her like a book. And the truth is that they probably could. But at the same time they don't really care to because it's just more work. And so I think I think that's a misconception. You know everybody kind of needs a break and your family is so often your break. You know it's where you recharge it's where you get more energy from. And so I think there's probably a few things that's played in the background about this but you know I think it's part of it's part of my story but not a big part of my story I think.

What lessons did they pass on about managing your own psychology. What are the narratives that you are raised with around mental health. The reason that I ask this is because I know in Indian culture the sort of default narrative around anything mental health as well therapy is for crazy people. We don't do that. And I believe that for a very long time until I found myself in a therapist office at 37 and my only question was what took me so long to get here.

Yeah it's yeah the narratives around mental health. I think this is the funny and I love these questions because they're making me think immediately off the bat as opposed to reverting to the same kind of points about the book. But I think the narrative around mental health was an interesting one because the families that we have both my parents sides there they were the ones who came to my parents for help and so very much you know maybe the the family outside of my parents wasn't so open about mental health but they were quite open about mental health. I've seen a psychologist not very many good ones who have actually helped me dissect my mind more than say a meditation practice good. But it's I think that that inclination towards exploration has been in the background. I think the openness is there but I just haven't really labeled as such. I hope that makes sense.

Yeah. To make sense. Do they pass on any particular lessons about managing self-esteem dealing with things like depression or failure or setback that you think have had an impact on who you've become.

I don't think so. And it might sound like an odd answer but it's just something we didn't talk about. Yeah

I think you know they were very much about promoting how we explored our own minds but didn't necessarily practice. And I think this was a hesitation that they had in a way where they didn't want to get us to be some way. They didn't you know get us to go to a particular church. They didn't get us to try to do a particular profession. They really just said OK you know find out who you are. And so the work was on me. And so there was you know kind of little guidance but I think that kind of scrappy mental nature kind of made for that the curious nature that is hopefully behind most of the things that I do today. Yeah. Is that that curiosity that's embedded with me maybe the tendency toward connecting different disparate different disparate pieces of information might be in me to be this is a this is a fun.

Well we'll get to that at the end because I know you talked about that in the other part of this that I wonder mainly because I'm working on an outline for a new book about the impact that our social programming has on us. You mentioned that they were risk averse and despite the fact that they were risk averse you have developed a capacity for arrest. I guess the question is then how does somebody who has been raised with social programming that is not them to be risk averse develop of capacity for risk.

Despite that programming I think that you find what you're so curious and passionate about that you will do that thing. Despite all the risk. And so I think when you know that you're so into something that you absolutely have to do it despite the risk that exists that's a sign that you've found something that you're truly passionate about. And you know some people have weird curiosities. I would include myself in that mix with productivity and so you know I think I've talked about this on the show before but there was a point when I graduated university and I received a few job offers where I had the choice of going the traditional route but I thought OK I'm so much of a nerd about productivity let's experiment with this let's explore this for a year. So I declined the job site to start what became the productivity project. And I think you know doing that despite the risk. So if you're risk averse I just think you need to find that thing that you can't stop thinking about that you can't stop just persevere rating on as he do other things. You know look at how you spend your free time what you consume what you connect who you talk to people about you know that's I think a sign that you're truly into something and you know doing. Like you say doing the work for the work's sake because you can't get it off of your mind and you can't think about doing anything else.

You chose not to accept the job right after college. So I wonder what would you say to people who might be listening who are either in college right now or about to finish college about what you've just said is this is something that you think everybody should do.

Or does it. Is it something that people should consider experimenting.

What your advice is definitely not something most people should do. What I would recommend I remember as a recruiter at a big technology company for a while through university and one of the things that we looked for when we were hiring people in fact the main thing that we looked for was how people spent their spare time. And so you know these were co-op students who were in university and the ones that we hired more often than not they were in the co-op program so they actually had some real experience. But B they had signals that they were curious about what they were studying beyond just University. And so I would look to that point as a starting point how do you spend your free time if you. It's the classic question if you if any of that you know he decided to give you all the royalties from his books and I decided to as well. You win this grand contest. And you know you don't have to worry about money any more you have a constant amount rolling in. How do you spend your time when you have that total flexibility. You know some random guy leaves you in his will for 100 million dollars. How do you spend every day of your life. And chances are you would spend it how you spend a lot of your free time already. You know whether it's reading books about productivity whether it's painting whether it's illustrating whatever your art happens to be I would look at that place as a place to start. And so I would find ways and this is going way back to when I graduate this is kind of fun you know find ways and places where what you're studying intersects with what you're passionate about.

If they overlap in the Venn diagram is just a circle. Then I think you continue for to find a career in that bit but you know the thing that I've realized in talking to people in exploring these ideas is wherever you work assuming it's a job you'll get a paycheck you know. So if it's for yourself you know you'll probably struggle to get by. But chances are you'll find a way because you give yourself no choice but to find a way. So I would look at where your skills and your passions overlap and use that as this as it might be common sense advice. But at the time the graduate I thought OK I have this degree and I have these job offers but there is little overlap between these offers and what I'm actually curious and passionate about so I found the overlap. It was productivity because I have a business degree. I couldn't find a job in which I could experiment and explore. So I said you know let's decline these jobs and experiment with productivity for a year which then turned into a career in IT which is now a calling and now I get to write books and do talks around the world about this idea so it can work out this way and if you give your self no choice but to make it work out that way I think your odds are even better now.

Well I'm glad about the passion idea and I think the thing that's interesting was that you preceded by saying that there are a lot of experiments and exploration which I think often people have this idea that there they have some pre-determined passion which is ridiculous because you have no datapoints make that kind of a decision about what you're passionate about. And I think that that when you really do find something engaging that's when a passion starts to emerge.

Yeah yeah it's yeah and I think you know we all have so many data points in our past. And you know I look at everything through the lens of productivity but you know this is what I so often find in writing about productivity as you know people want to focus more and people want to have more energy and people want to be more motivated by their work. But and so they try to look forward into the future to find ways to become more productive more focused and more passion about what they do instead of looking behind and noticing weight. Every time I've been fired up about my work I was you know doing a podcast interview maybe I should start a podcast. Every time I've been productive I've been taming distractions or have been on a deadline. Maybe I should find more deadlines or seek out ways to make my work a bit more threatening. You know every time I've had a ton of energy to bring to my work I've been taking a lot of breaks at work. I've been having a consistent exercise regimen or a meditation regimen. Maybe I should pick that back up. So yeah like you said we have all these data points but we just need to look back for them it seems weird to kind of look into the past but that's how we've lived our lives up to this point and if we want to find a direction and a trajectory that's different from where we are that's more productive that's more focus that's more meaningful. I think that's a great place to start.

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We've talked to you before about how you ended up sort of wedding where you're at.

And you kind of alluded to some of that and this conversation as well. Anything early on in your life that planted your seed for this interest of all things in productivity because for somebody as young as you are and decide you know what this is what I'm passionate about. A very strange passion.

Yeah yeah really is. I think it was feeling that the absence of things to do in my mind. And I first got this feeling of absence since kind of a weird way to phrase it but it really makes sense to me I hope it makes sense to. The first place I got it was reading Getting Things Done by David Alan which the whole system is about getting the things you have to do into an external list or some sort of system so that you have more attention with which to focus throughout the day and so that was kind of the first feeling that I had. You know outside of a vacation where I was actively doing a lot of work and had a lot of projects on my plate. Mind you these aren't very important projects. These these were like these were like book reports in high school way back when but I felt the feeling of OK I have so much to do. But I know that when I work on something that everything's somewhere that I can just totally focus and become immersed in what I'm doing. And so maybe maybe there's something to this whole productivity thing. And so I think so much of products that you know we talk about doing more and accomplishing more but I think there's that deeper feeling when it comes to a product that feels like we only get a bit of that feeling sometimes and it's often when we do something and it's not on our to do list and we cross that off and it feels amazing.

But I think we could feel that way all the time like let light go whatever we're doing. That's where we need to be. And I think that's kind of the power of working with intention behind what we do where there's that in the moment confidence that where we are is where we need to be. And I've gotten this feeling totally where you know I had that total confidence once more and it was on the publicity tour for the the last book of all places you know kind of a situation that I didn't expect to find myself in but somehow managed to get there where you know we were doing 10 interviews and a day back to back to back to back. But there was somebody all the time to get me water or get me food. And you know it just as I felt hunger beginning to encroach on my mental space. There was a meal in front of me and I knew there was somebody to OK. You have to go here now and we're going to drive you here and wherever I was I knew that that was exactly where I needed to be. And I think there's that confidence embedded within intention where we feel that sense of purpose in the moment and so I think you know that feeling is worth chasing them.

So what prompted this idea of hyperfocus.

I mean obviously we know that our issues with distraction or attention are at an all time high. We've had tell Newport here to talk about deep work. So what is it planted your we'll planted the seed for your interest in this subject in particular.

Honestly and this is it's tough to admit sometimes but it's noticing how distracted that I was after publishing the first book. And you know you have to have to know that a lot of the advice that I gave in the first book centered around focusing deeper and resisting distractions and managing our attention. But yet once that book was shipped I found myself in a state of distraction where you know I couldn't focus I was surrounded by novel notifications and it was because I wasn't on a deadline of some sort. And that led me to think OK if I'm in this situation as somebody who makes his living studying and speaking about him writing about productivity maybe other people who aren't as into productivity are facing this puzzle but you know be that I wasn't seeing the full picture of just how distracted we are and how we can actually tame these distractions as opposed to falling victim to them so that was very much the impetus. And but it's worth admitting because we're all human.

So let's get into the concept in this book.

Let's start with this idea of attentional space. Can you define it for us. And talk about how we can make ours better.

Yeah for sure. So we only have so much attention to give to the world around us in the moment. And I think most of us are aware that our attention is limited blah blah blah. We've heard this a lot of times before but we don't really internalize just how limited things are. And this is this is something that surprised me as you know going through all the research that I could find on the topic. Reading these these studies from front to back I don't know. I think a lot of people say they read studies from front to back but they don't actually do it. But essentially they're very dry they're very dry. Some of these studies. But we can only hold up after we pay attention to something we can only hold so much in our mind. At one time and a lot of the ideas in the research are surrounding attention they're kind of like difficult to connect with on some level. And I found this idea of a working memory capacity how much information we can hold in our mind at one moment coming up again and again and again and again where this is the mental scratch pad that we use to hold information in our mind. It's kind of like the the equivalent of a computer's RAM. But for our brain and it's very limited this working memory capacity so I use the term attentional space as a way of framing this idea and what we do when we focus on something is we welcome it into this attentional space. But you know like you're saying it's quite limited. We can hold we used to think we can hold around seven unique chunks of information in our short term memory at one time.

But the latest research shows that we can hold around three or four chunks of information in the world is structured around this you know it's structured around threes we have sayings like good things come in threes. And the third time's the charm and celebrities die in threes and you know chunk things naturally into threes and fours. A good example of this is phone numbers which are usually you know three numbers and three numbers and four numbers we don't say you know my phone number is 1 billion seven hundred eighty four million six hundred. But as we say my phone number is 1 6 1 3 8 and you know and this is how we're meant to think. And but the idea is that because we can only fit a few things in our mind at one time we need to manage our attention more deliberately. We can't carry on two conversations at one time we can't even do two complex things at one time at best we can do a complex thing while doing something habitual like working out while listening to a podcast or doing our laundry while we listen to a podcast or an audio book. And so it's essential and we can multitask with habits so we can use the attentional space to do that. But when it comes to our most complex work it requires so much of our attention that we need to give our attention to the complex tasks that we have more completely. And so it's it's this idea that by managing this space which is just what we're focusing on in the moment we better manage our life and every aspect of it.

So I think for most people hearing that the first thought that comes to mind is the things digitally that compete for your attention and after talking with Ghazaleh who's a neuroscientist whose work I'm sure are familiar with given the nature of what you do. The thing that became very clear to me is the importance of your physical space when it comes to attention management so what did your own show about this.

Yeah one of the more illuminating things that I saw repeating and reverberating through the research maybe he was talking about this too is the way that our attention is wired because the key I think to understanding distractions is that the reason we fall victim to them is that in the moment what we see as a distraction is just a more attractive object of attention than what we truly want and ought to be doing. And the way we see it as more attractive we are attention is wired to pay attention to anything that is one of three things by default. The first is anything that is pleasurable. We pay attention to. The second is anything that is threatening we pay attention to. And the third is anything that is novel. We naturally pay attention to. There's even a novelty bias embedded within our brains prefrontal cortex where we naturally get more of a release of dopamine a pleasure chemical whenever we focus on something that our brain sees as shiny. And this aided us well in our evolutionary history because you know instead of hyper focusing on building a fire for for our tribe or village we notice to the novel threat encroaching on our environment the saber tooth tiger that was sneaking up we paid attention to the threat we dealt with the threat and we evolved to live another day and build another fire. And the same is true with the novel pleasures in our environment where we evolved to notice berries hanging from a tree or potential mates which also allowed us to reproduce and aided our chances of survival. But these days you know there are many tigers roaming the streets there are some cougars but not very many tigers.

I should have made that joke in the book but the nearest threats are few and far between. And the same brain mechanisms that allowed us to survive through today are what are hijacked from anything that we see as a distraction. And so you know you talk about the environment we anything in front of us that is more pleasurable or threatening or novel than the work that we truly want to be doing. We're going to have to resist it and expend mental energy in order to to realign our attention towards what's more pleasurable and threatening a novel. Looking around me in the office right now I have a bunch of plants. I have a meditation cushion there's my turtle Edward basking on her rock. You can't tell the gender of a turtle when you get it. And there's various things that I could pay attention to. But I've designed this space so that nothing in it is more attractive in the moment than the work that I want to be doing. And of course most of the distractions are digital. So the phone is in another room. The iPad is in another room and I don't have a distractions blocker enabled on my computer right now but it's because a conversation like this consumes most of my attention in the first place. And so you know there's kind of two environments I think that we need to manage. There's the there's the physical environment and the digital environment. And I would I would lend even more credence to the digital environments because they're where we spend so much of our time.

I mean that's why I dedicate an entire chapter to environments an audience of one because I was just blown away by the impact both physical and digital environments have on all of your behavior. You know we've talked endlessly on the show about how to deal with distractions. I don't want to spend too much time on that idea. Let's get into this concept of hyper focus and what it means how you define it and what are the benefits in terms of performance that result from hyper focus.

Yeah. So I define hyperfocus it originates in HD literature where it's when somebody with A.D.H.D brings their full attention is something I use that same term but to mean this but to mean that that complete focus but coupled with deliberate attention. So in other words we choose what we focus on before we focus on something. And I think that's a key to productivity where the most productive people they don't work on this autopilot mode in response to the work that comes our way or lands in their e-mail inbox they're the ones who choose more often throughout the day what they focus on and what they work on before they work on anything. And so I think you know one of the beautiful parts about writing this book is is that I found that our attention has these natural rhythms that we follow. You know we're focused on something our attention then gets distracted. You know people have done distractions to death. I think everything surrounding that. But distractions too is fascinating. You know so we get distracted by something internal or external to us. There are about 50 50 in terms of what derails us and then we bring our attention back so we can model some steps by which we can hyper focus on our work and become more likely to do what Cal refers to as deep work. What Mihai chix sent me high refers to this flow state where we look up at the clock. We think 20 minutes have gone by and it's three hours since we started working on something so we're more likely to get into the state when we model some steps by which we can focus more deeply on our work.

After this natural rhythm that we followed to focus better. So we start by focusing on something so we can choose what to focus on in the first place. Then you eliminate as many external and internal distractions as you can. The key is there as you can because like a hiccup there will be things that come up over the course of working that you can't take like office visitors and things like that. And then once you've laid the groundwork you've chosen something to do that's important. You've eliminated anything that is more pleasurable threatening or novel in the moment than what you want to be doing. Then you bring your attention to that intention and continually draw it back while you bring your mind back gently. And I think that's the key is that our mind wanders an awful lot against our will. It wanders around 47 percent of the day but we only notice that our mind has wandered five times every hour. And so in other words we can fall down a rabbit hole of distraction or we can get into this state of mind wandering without intention quite often and we can fall into it for quite a long time without noting knowing that we're in it. And so now that's kind of the final step is bring our attention back when we notice that it's veered off the course.

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So I think that most people understand the general concept behind this. But the thing is that what what I've learned at least is that the capacity for attention and to have it sustained over a long period of time is something that you have to practice building. I know for a fact that if you had asked me when I was 29 or 30 to sit down and to write for an hour hour and a half at the beginning of the day that would have been a tall order which is which is ironic considering how many more distractions that we have in the world today. I mean as somebody who is 80 I think for me many of these things are are necessities they're not things that I do because I'm passionate about productivity like yourself. Yeah. For me they're like if I didn't do these things I wouldn't get a damn thing done. But how do you how do people raise that capacity for her manager retention. I know you talked a bit about meditation. What are the other ways that can be done.

Well the way to raise their capacity to focus for longer is to lower how stimulated you are by default. And so we feel this sort of restlessness and boredom and anxiety whenever we transition downward from a state of high stimulation into a state of Lower stimulation that's the definition that I use for boredom is adjusting down into a state of Lower stimulation because once we're there we don't experience boredom anymore but it's as we're doing the adjusting that we feel restless and uncomfortable. And so I think this is something that is worth chipping away at over time where and a way to do this and a helpful strategy that I love is to shrink how long you'll focus for Intel you no longer feel that resistance so you know at the start if you're like me you might not be able to focus on one thing for ten minutes if you're not on a deadline and so you know shrink how long you're going to work on something until you feel no resistance to it so you know could I write for an hour today. No the thought of it puts me off. What about 45 minutes. Thirty two. Twenty fifty. Yeah I can do 15 and then refocus for 15 minutes you find that resistance level you tame distractions and then over time as you ritualize this idea you block off periods in your calendar to get into this mode over time you lower that default level of stimulation the amount of dopamine coursing through your brain because of this novelty bias that's embedded within us and you become better able to think more deeply about your work.

And this is I think something that the others miss is that it's we can't just tame distractions and then work productively every day. We need to over time chip away at this level of stimulation to think more deeply and focus on one thing for a longer period of time and so that that's what what I would suggest and this is easier said than done but it comes from its ways especially for somebody with A.D.H.D. But over time you begin to notice the quality of your attention increasing and and then you notice how much you accomplish increasing but also how meaningful your life is because this is you know kind of a big takeaway for me from this project is that the state of that. It's more than just productivity. You know we talk about how we should resist distractions because they do Rayleigh so often. But if there's one thing that shines through the research it's that the state of our attention is what determines the state of our lives if we're distracted in every moment those moment to moment experiences accumulate to create a life that is filled with distraction.

We live a distracted life and we never feel like we have a sense of purpose. But if we choose more often than not what we focus on and make that thing productive and make that thing meaningful whether it's a conversation with you on a podcast whether it's dinner with a loved one whether it's reading a good book and we bring our attention to that then our moment by moment experiences become more productive and meaningful and then those accumulate and build up to create a product in meaningful life. And I think this is you know we talk about distraction and stuff in the moment but this is the power of managing your attention is the state of your attention. Builds up to determine the state of your life. And so this just it's so worth you know you could tell I get a bit fired up by this idea. But it's because I've noticed this in myself. I feel more meaning in what I do and more fired up by what I do and it's because of these ideas.

Wow. OK so what. I'm stealing that phrase the state of your attention determines the state of your life and writing it in a blog post Albe make sure I credit you and link type refocussed even after credit me and that's fine.

I just want this idea to get out there man.

I agree because I actually wrote a piece on Medium titled that attention is the currency of achievement and I ended it by saying all you have to do is look at this one fact Mark Zuckerberg has become a billionaire by doing one thing capturing your attention.

Yeah that's so true. What is more novel or pleasurable or threatening than a Facebook notification which happens to be the same colors as as the the berries that we evolved to pay attention to maybe sex maybe sex. Yeah it's funny you know talking about mind wandering. I wrote a bit in the book about like what leads our mind to wander. And so the more immersed we become in what we're doing in the moment the the the the you know the happier we are. And the thing that leads our mind to wander the least happens to be sex. I have the list here number five and listening to music number four is playing in one way or another. You know a creative Abhi 3 is talking and investing in our relationships to is exercising and one is making. And you could do all five one time if you are

Amazing. I think that actually really makes a perfect segue to getting into this concept of scatter focus.

So you said basically when you know the section on scatter fingers I have this year in front of me and there's this quote that pulling up give me just a sec here. Actually you know what I don't have it in front of me but. Oh here it is just as hyperfocus are the most productive mode of the brain scatter focus is the most creative stat or focus can derail our productivity when our original intent is to focus. But when we're coming up with a creative solution to our problem planning for our future or making a difficult decision it's just as essential as hyperfocus can you expand on that yeah.

So distraction tends to fill the spare moment of our lives like water water is very much on my mind. It's a beautiful rainy day here in rainy Kingston Ontario Canada. It's feel so relaxing. I have the tea here. I have some water is very relaxing to talk to you it's such like a rainy day to spend indoors but it's I don't even know where I go see. Sometimes we distract yourself even even when we're really good at paying attention to things.

But yeah I think you know traffic flow is one of my favorite things to study of in addition to productivity. And if you look at how traffic flows down the highway what allows cars to continue moving forward isn't how fast they're moving. Paradoxically it's how much space exists between the cars that allows them to continue moving forward. And I would argue that our attention is much the same way now when our mind wanders against our will. It's terrible for our productivity because we're not progressing toward our intentions but when we set out time to deliberately let our mind wander and you know doing anything a bitch will get you into taking a bit longer of a shower in the morning swimming laps in the pool.

What other examples are related to water having your your morning tea or your morning coffee. This mode this mind wandering mode allows us to do three things at one time. It allows us to rest and so we expend mental energy whenever we have to regulate our attention in one way or another. This is why distractions are so exhausting. Some days we spend the entire day because we don't have a lot of work to do we just kind of bounce around between distractions and we find that we're exhausted and it's because we expend mental energy whenever we have to rely on our attention to focus on something and so we rest up when we're taking a shower swim laps or or go for a walk. But at the same time and this is a total you know kind of ball from left field because curve ball I think is the word that people use because I found that I had little energy when I was focusing all the time and I thought OK what the hell am I doing wrong. I'm choosing what to focus on I'm taming these distractions because there's a costly I'm bringing my mind back but it's because I never rested that I became burnt out and I found that I worked in a more reactive way.

And the fascinating thing that doing this led me to was where our mind wanders to when we let it rest and just just be and not focus on anything we think about the past a little bit when our mind is wandering but we only think about the past around 12 per cent of the time the rest of the time we're either thinking about the present and how to approach it more strategically or we're thinking about the future we think about when our mind is wandering we think about the present 28 percent of the time and we think about the future. 48 percent of the time and most of this time is spent on the immediate future we're thinking about what we're going to work on next we think about what we're going to do later on in the day and most of us only get this in the shower but. But it's worth getting this more often we think about our goals. Here is one step that that kind of changed the way I felt about this. This mind wandering Mogis.

Ok it's good for resting but I like focusing on things especially when they're novel and pleasurable and stuff but we think about our goals 14 times as much when our mind is wandering versus when it's paying attention to something.

And so in this way it's by paying attention to things that we actually move our work and our life forward but it's by stepping back and allowing some space between the cars that we that we set intentions that we let our mind rest and when we come up with ideas because when we connect the past to the present to the future that is when we come up with our most brilliant Eureka insights because we remember some nugget of information that we heard on a podcast a few weeks ago and we connect that to a problem that we're facing at work and then we form that connection and and bam we come up with an idea that we wouldn't have arrived at otherwise focusing on something and so I think it's it's because we bounced between these three mental destinations are past our present and our future. And we also think about the information we've accumulated and connected that this mode is so powerful and it's worth getting more of already damn.

Wow.

Well I think that makes a really fitting end to a conversation that has been packed with of insight which is what I've come to expect from you at this point. After after two of these conversations so I want to fence conversation with my final question and that is what do you think it is that makes somebody or something unmistakable

I'm going to steal this answer from Seth Godin and I'm sure he gave gave this answer when he was on the show. I've noticed that Wanya but it says something is remarkable not in the way that it's great but in the fact that people will want to remark on it and about it. And I think the best ideas have that quality. Any book or show or anything that goes viral has that quality. I think what makes something mistaken is that it's worth talking about and sharing.

And that's my answer.

Amazing. I can't thank you enough for taking the time to join us and share your story and your insights. Listeners. Where can people find out more about you your work and the new book.

Yeah. The book is called hyperfocus. It's available in bookstores everywhere wherever books are sold.

Yeah my sight is a life of productivity dotcom and yeah just thanks for. I hope I hope there's some actual nuggets and for everybody listening.

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Chris Bailey is an expert on productivity. He’s the author of the international best-selling book The Productivity Project, and his newest book, Hyperfocus, comes out in September.

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You know we all have so many data points in our past. And you know I look at everything through the lens of productivity. But you know this is what I so often find in writing about productivity is you know people want to focus more and people want to have more energy and people want to be more motivated by their work. But and so they try to look forward into the future to find ways to become more productive and more focused and more passion about what they do instead of looking behind and noticing wait. Every time I've been fired up about my work I was you know doing a podcast and maybe I should start a podcast. Every time I've been productive I've been taming distractions or have been on a deadline maybe I should find more deadlines or seek out ways to make my work a bit more threatening. You know every time I've had a ton of energy to bring to my work I've been taking a lot of breaks at work. I've been having a consistent exercise regimen or a meditation regimen maybe I should pick that back up. So yeah like you said we have all these data points but we just need to look back for them it seems weird to kind of look into the past but that's how we lift our lives up to this point and if we want to find a direction and a trajectory that's different from where we are that's more productive that's more focus that's more meaningful. I think that's a great place to start.

I'm sure any route and this is the unmistakable creative Pottasch where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements built thriving businesses written best selling books and created insanely interesting. For more check out our 500 episode archive unmistakable creator

Hey it's Srini. I know that you have heard me talking about my new book an audience of one. Reclaiming creativity for its own sake. So I want to tell you a little bit about the book. Have you ever heard an episode of The unmistakable creative and learned something and thought you want to apply that thing to your life and then suddenly forgot it. Well this book really is a blueprint of all the best advice that I've ever gotten from unmistakable creative guest for how to improve your habits for how to be more productive for how to avoid distractions for how to be more creative and you can download a free chapter at unmistakable creative dot com slash audience. Again that's unmistakable creative dot com slash audience and the book comes out on August 7.

Chris welcome to the unmistakable critic. Thanks so much for taking the time]]>
The world we live in now is full of distractions, but not all of them are as disruptive as you might think. Chris Bailey is a productivity expert, and he’s mastered the art of being more efficient and productive despite the ever-growing list of distractions we face daily. He discusses how to find your most productive self, discovering success, and much more.

You know we all have so many data points in our past. And you know I look at everything through the lens of productivity. But you know this is what I so often find in writing about productivity is you know people want to focus more and people want to have more energy and people want to be more motivated by their work. But and so they try to look forward into the future to find ways to become more productive and more focused and more passion about what they do instead of looking behind and noticing wait. Every time I've been fired up about my work I was you know doing a podcast and maybe I should start a podcast. Every time I've been productive I've been taming distractions or have been on a deadline maybe I should find more deadlines or seek out ways to make my work a bit more threatening. You know every time I've had a ton of energy to bring to my work I've been taking a lot of breaks at work. I've been having a consistent exercise regimen or a meditation regimen maybe I should pick that back up. So yeah like you said we have all these data points but we just need to look back for them it seems weird to kind of look into the past but that's how we lift our lives up to this point and if we want to find a direction and a trajectory that's different from where we are that's more productive that's more focus that's more meaningful. I think that's a great place to start.

I'm sure any route and this is the unmistakable creative Pottasch where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements built thriving businesses written best selling books and created insanely interesting. For more check out our 500 episode archive unmistakable creator

Hey it's Srini. I know that you have heard me talking about my new book an audience of one. Reclaiming creativity for its own sake. So I want to tell you a little bit about the book. Have you ever heard an episode of The unmistakable creative and learned something and thought you want to apply that thing to your life and then suddenly forgot it. Well this book really is a blueprint of all the best advice that I've ever gotten from unmistakable creative guest for how to improve your habits for how to be more productive for how to avoid distractions for how to be more creative and you can download a free chapter at unmistakable creative dot com slash audience. Again that's unmistakable creative dot com slash audience and the book comes out on August 7.

Chris welcome to the unmistakable critic. Thanks so much for taking the time]]>
cleanNonono00:46:13sriniBest of: The Ayurveda Way with Ananta Ripa Ajmerahttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-ayurveda-way-ananta-ripa-ajmera/
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:13:09 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6986Well BeingWould you like to sleep better, have less stress, have better digestion, and just feel better all around? Ananta Ripa Ajmera has unlocked the secrets to living a healthier, more beneficial life and wants to share her discovery. Through an optimized diet and practices from yoga, Ananta has helped people earn a healthier body, mind, and soul.

Ananta Ripa Ajmera is author of the bestselling book The Ayurveda Way. She is a Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and Yoga Instructor who continues to study closely with Acharya Shunya, a renowned master teacher whose lineage extends back to ancient India.

Would you like to sleep better, have less stress, have better digestion, and just feel better all around? Ananta Ripa Ajmera has unlocked the secrets to living a healthier, more beneficial life and wants to share her discovery. Through an optimized diet and practices from yoga, Ananta has helped people earn a healthier body, mind, and soul.

Ananta Ripa Ajmera is author of the bestselling book The Ayurveda Way. She is a Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and Yoga Instructor who continues to study closely with Acharya Shunya, a renowned master teacher whose lineage extends back to ancient India.

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Would you like to sleep better, have less stress, have better digestion, and just feel better all around? Ananta Ripa Ajmera has unlocked the secrets to living a healthier, more beneficial life and wants to share her discovery. Through an optimized diet and practices from yoga, Ananta has helped people earn a healthier body, mind, and soul.

Ananta Ripa Ajmera is author of the bestselling book The Ayurveda Way. She is a Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and Yoga Instructor who continues to study closely with Acharya Shunya, a renowned master teacher whose lineage extends back to ancient India.

Would you like to sleep better, have less stress, have better digestion, and just feel better all around? Ananta Ripa Ajmera has unlocked the secrets to living a healthier, more beneficial life and wants to share her discovery. Through an optimized diet and practices from yoga, Ananta has helped people earn a healthier body, mind, and soul.

Ananta Ripa Ajmera is author of the bestselling book The Ayurveda Way. She is a Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and Yoga Instructor who continues to study closely with Acharya Shunya, a renowned master teacher whose lineage extends back to ancient India.

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Ananta Ripa Ajmera is author of the bestselling book The Ayurveda Way. She is a Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and Yoga Instructor who continues to study closely with Acharya Shunya, a renowned master teacher whose lineage extends back to ancient India.

Would you like to sleep better, have less stress, have better digestion, and just feel better all around? Ananta Ripa Ajmera has unlocked the secrets to living a healthier, more beneficial life and wants to share her discovery. Through an optimized diet and practices from yoga, Ananta has helped people earn a healthier body, mind, and soul.

Ananta Ripa Ajmera is author of the bestselling book The Ayurveda Way. She is a Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and Yoga Instructor who continues to study closely with Acharya Shunya, a renowned master teacher whose lineage extends back to ancient India.

]]>cleanNonono00:57:30sriniAnn Van Eron: Reach Peak Potentialhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/ann-van-eron-reach-peak-potential/
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:36:40 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6968Well BeingHow do we reach our peak potential in our every day lives and in a business setting? According to Ann Van Eron, it involves several factors that most people overlook. Everything from understanding others’ perspectives to helping develop leaders goes into reaching your peak potential and achieving an “oasis state.” She shares her background, her philosophies on management and team-building, and much more.

Ann Van Eron founded Potentials in 1984 to assist organizations and individuals to better understand and fully develop their capabilities. She’s also the author of OASIS Conversations.

How do we reach our peak potential in our every day lives and in a business setting? According to Ann Van Eron, it involves several factors that most people overlook. Everything from understanding others’ perspectives to helping develop leaders goes into reaching your peak potential and achieving an “oasis state.” She shares her background, her philosophies on management and team-building, and much more.

Ann Van Eron founded Potentials in 1984 to assist organizations and individuals to better understand and fully develop their capabilities. She’s also the author of OASIS Conversations.

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Ann Van Eron founded Potentials in 1984 to assist organizations and individuals to better understand and fully develop their capabilities. She’s also the author of OASIS Conversations.

How do we reach our peak potential in our every day lives and in a business setting? According to Ann Van Eron, it involves several factors that most people overlook. Everything from understanding others’ perspectives to helping develop leaders goes into reaching your peak potential and achieving an “oasis state.” She shares her background, her philosophies on management and team-building, and much more.

Ann Van Eron founded Potentials in 1984 to assist organizations and individuals to better understand and fully develop their capabilities. She’s also the author of OASIS Conversations.

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Ann Van Eron founded Potentials in 1984 to assist organizations and individuals to better understand and fully develop their capabilities. She’s also the author of OASIS Conversations.

How do we reach our peak potential in our every day lives and in a business setting? According to Ann Van Eron, it involves several factors that most people overlook. Everything from understanding others’ perspectives to helping develop leaders goes into reaching your peak potential and achieving an “oasis state.” She shares her background, her philosophies on management and team-building, and much more.

Ann Van Eron founded Potentials in 1984 to assist organizations and individuals to better understand and fully develop their capabilities. She’s also the author of OASIS Conversations.

]]>cleanNonono00:43:39sriniCal Fussman: The Art of Emotionally Resonant Storytellinghttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/cal-fussman-art-emotionally-resonant-storytelling/
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:02:25 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6961Well BeingLife can be a long, complicated series of events for everyone, and that’s been especially true for Cal Fussman. His journey has taken him to exotic places, seen him talk to extraordinary people, and helped him understand humanity a little better. He shares his adventures and insights about how we view and share information, storytelling, and much more.

Cal Fussman is a journalist and author. He is a Writer at Large for Esquire magazine, known for the What I’ve Learned column, where he interviews leaders in various fields including Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Tom Hanks, and many others. He also hosts his own podcast, Big Questions.

Life can be a long, complicated series of events for everyone, and that’s been especially true for Cal Fussman. His journey has taken him to exotic places, seen him talk to extraordinary people, and helped him understand humanity a little better. He shares his adventures and insights about how we view and share information, storytelling, and much more.

Cal Fussman is a journalist and author. He is a Writer at Large for Esquire magazine, known for the What I’ve Learned column, where he interviews leaders in various fields including Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Tom Hanks, and many others. He also hosts his own podcast, Big Questions.

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Cal Fussman is a journalist and author. He is a Writer at Large for Esquire magazine, known for the What I’ve Learned column, where he interviews leaders in various fields including Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Tom Hanks, and many others. He also hosts his own podcast, Big Questions.

Life can be a long, complicated series of events for everyone, and that’s been especially true for Cal Fussman. His journey has taken him to exotic places, seen him talk to extraordinary people, and helped him understand humanity a little better. He shares his adventures and insights about how we view and share information, storytelling, and much more.

Cal Fussman is a journalist and author. He is a Writer at Large for Esquire magazine, known for the What I’ve Learned column, where he interviews leaders in various fields including Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Tom Hanks, and many others. He also hosts his own podcast, Big Questions.

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Cal Fussman is a journalist and author. He is a Writer at Large for Esquire magazine, known for the What I’ve Learned column, where he interviews leaders in various fields including Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Tom Hanks, and many others. He also hosts his own podcast, Big Questions.

Life can be a long, complicated series of events for everyone, and that’s been especially true for Cal Fussman. His journey has taken him to exotic places, seen him talk to extraordinary people, and helped him understand humanity a little better. He shares his adventures and insights about how we view and share information, storytelling, and much more.

Cal Fussman is a journalist and author. He is a Writer at Large for Esquire magazine, known for the What I’ve Learned column, where he interviews leaders in various fields including Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Tom Hanks, and many others. He also hosts his own podcast, Big Questions.

]]>cleanNonono01:26:32sriniBest of: How To Kill Email Anxiety and Get Real Work Done with Jocelyn Gleihttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/best-kill-email-anxiety-get-real-work-done-jocelyn-glei/
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:55:20 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6933Peak PerformanceHas your inbox taken over your life? Does just thinking about checking your email give you incredible anxiety? Do you find yourself checking your email over and over again to the point where it’s keeping you from accomplishing your actual tasks? Then Jocelyn Glei is here to help. She joins us to discuss how to take back control of your inbox and how to get real work done.

Has your inbox taken over your life? Does just thinking about checking your email give you incredible anxiety? Do you find yourself checking your email over and over again to the point where it’s keeping you from accomplishing your actual tasks? Then Jocelyn Glei is here to help. She joins us to discuss how to take back control of your inbox and how to get real work done.

]]>Has your inbox taken over your life? Does just thinking about checking your email give you incredible anxiety? Do you find yourself checking your email over and over again to the point where it’s keeping you from accomplishing your actual tasks? Then Jocelyn Glei is here to help. She joins us to discuss how to take back control of your inbox and how to get real work done.

Has your inbox taken over your life? Does just thinking about checking your email give you incredible anxiety? Do you find yourself checking your email over and over again to the point where it’s keeping you from accomplishing your actual tasks? Then Jocelyn Glei is here to help. She joins us to discuss how to take back control of your inbox and how to get real work done.

]]>Has your inbox taken over your life? Does just thinking about checking your email give you incredible anxiety? Do you find yourself checking your email over and over again to the point where it’s keeping you from accomplishing your actual tasks? Then Jocelyn Glei is here to help. She joins us to discuss how to take back control of your inbox and how to get real work done.

Has your inbox taken over your life? Does just thinking about checking your email give you incredible anxiety? Do you find yourself checking your email over and over again to the point where it’s keeping you from accomplishing your actual tasks? Then Jocelyn Glei is here to help. She joins us to discuss how to take back control of your inbox and how to get real work done.

]]>cleanNonono00:45:37sriniRae Senarighi: The Transgender Manifestohttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rae-senarighi-transgender-manifesto/
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:46:31 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6833Peak PerformanceWhat is life like as a transgender non-binary person? Rae Senarighi joins us to discuss the challenges that face transgender people, how families, friends, and strangers can be more accepting and understanding of the transgender experience, and how compassion and empathy define relationships.

Rae Senarighi is a transgender non-binary artist currently based in Portland, OR. He is best known for vivid colorful abstracts, intricate typography and vivid portraiture. Rae began his studies at the University of Montana in 2000 and finished his BFA at the Art Institute of Seattle in 2009, receiving a Hall of Fame Award in 2011. His art has been internationally published in Cell, Nature and Science magazines and his graphic design and typography have been key features at Elevate Your Brand and Peaceful Media.

What is life like as a transgender non-binary person? Rae Senarighi joins us to discuss the challenges that face transgender people, how families, friends, and strangers can be more accepting and understanding of the transgender experience, and how compassion and empathy define relationships.

Rae Senarighi is a transgender non-binary artist currently based in Portland, OR. He is best known for vivid colorful abstracts, intricate typography and vivid portraiture. Rae began his studies at the University of Montana in 2000 and finished his BFA at the Art Institute of Seattle in 2009, receiving a Hall of Fame Award in 2011. His art has been internationally published in Cell, Nature and Science magazines and his graphic design and typography have been key features at Elevate Your Brand and Peaceful Media.

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Rae Senarighi is a transgender non-binary artist currently based in Portland, OR. He is best known for vivid colorful abstracts, intricate typography and vivid portraiture. Rae began his studies at the University of Montana in 2000 and finished his BFA at the Art Institute of Seattle in 2009, receiving a Hall of Fame Award in 2011. His art has been internationally published in Cell, Nature and Science magazines and his graphic design and typography have been key features at Elevate Your Brand and Peaceful Media.

What is life like as a transgender non-binary person? Rae Senarighi joins us to discuss the challenges that face transgender people, how families, friends, and strangers can be more accepting and understanding of the transgender experience, and how compassion and empathy define relationships.

Rae Senarighi is a transgender non-binary artist currently based in Portland, OR. He is best known for vivid colorful abstracts, intricate typography and vivid portraiture. Rae began his studies at the University of Montana in 2000 and finished his BFA at the Art Institute of Seattle in 2009, receiving a Hall of Fame Award in 2011. His art has been internationally published in Cell, Nature and Science magazines and his graphic design and typography have been key features at Elevate Your Brand and Peaceful Media.

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Rae Senarighi is a transgender non-binary artist currently based in Portland, OR. He is best known for vivid colorful abstracts, intricate typography and vivid portraiture. Rae began his studies at the University of Montana in 2000 and finished his BFA at the Art Institute of Seattle in 2009, receiving a Hall of Fame Award in 2011. His art has been internationally published in Cell, Nature and Science magazines and his graphic design and typography have been key features at Elevate Your Brand and Peaceful Media.

What is life like as a transgender non-binary person? Rae Senarighi joins us to discuss the challenges that face transgender people, how families, friends, and strangers can be more accepting and understanding of the transgender experience, and how compassion and empathy define relationships.

Rae Senarighi is a transgender non-binary artist currently based in Portland, OR. He is best known for vivid colorful abstracts, intricate typography and vivid portraiture. Rae began his studies at the University of Montana in 2000 and finished his BFA at the Art Institute of Seattle in 2009, receiving a Hall of Fame Award in 2011. His art has been internationally published in Cell, Nature and Science magazines and his graphic design and typography have been key features at Elevate Your Brand and Peaceful Media.

]]>cleanNonono00:49:58sriniNeeta Bhushan: Navigating Seasons of Adversityhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/neeta-bhushan-navigating-seasons-adversity/
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:40:44 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6830Peak PerformanceNeeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Casper – The quality of your sleep impacts every facet of your life. The Casper mattress will be one of the best investments you’ll ever make. Their mattresses provide the right amount of sink and bounce, and they’re affordable as well. Get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/unmistakable and use the promo code “unmistakable.”

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Casper – The quality of your sleep impacts every facet of your life. The Casper mattress will be one of the best investments you’ll ever make. Their mattresses provide the right amount of sink and bounce, and they’re affordable as well. Get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/unmistakable and use the promo code “unmistakable.”

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

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Casper – The quality of your sleep impacts every facet of your life. The Casper mattress will be one of the best investments you’ll ever make. Their mattresses provide the right amount of sink and bounce, and they’re affordable as well. Get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/unmistakable and use the promo code “unmistakable.”

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Casper – The quality of your sleep impacts every facet of your life. The Casper mattress will be one of the best investments you’ll ever make. Their mattresses provide the right amount of sink and bounce, and they’re affordable as well. Get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/unmistakable and use the promo code “unmistakable.”

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s]]>

Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Casper – The quality of your sleep impacts every facet of your life. The Casper mattress will be one of the best investments you’ll ever make. Their mattresses provide the right amount of sink and bounce, and they’re affordable as well. Get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/unmistakable and use the promo code “unmistakable.”

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s the author of the best-selling book Emotional GRIT.You can follow her on Twitter @NeetaBhushan

Neeta Bhushan’s childhood was full of adversity. From losing both her mother and brother before she had turned 19 to facing homelessness, Neeta has had to navigate many trials in life. How has she done it? She shares her experiences with adversity and the power of emotional grit.

Casper – The quality of your sleep impacts every facet of your life. The Casper mattress will be one of the best investments you’ll ever make. Their mattresses provide the right amount of sink and bounce, and they’re affordable as well. Get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/unmistakable and use the promo code “unmistakable.”

Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She’s]]>

cleanNonono00:49:32sriniUnmistakable Creative Live from NYC with Sarah Peckhttps://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/unmistakable-creative-live-nyc-sarah-peck/
Sun, 12 Aug 2018 20:20:41 +0000srinihttp://unmistakablecreative.com/?post_type=podcast&p=6764Peak PerformanceSarah Peck joined the show as the Unmistakable Podcast was recorded live in front of an audience in New York City! She spoke about childhood, becoming a parent and how that changes your way of thinking, her creative process, and much more.

Sarah Peck is a writer, open water swimmer, designer-entrepreneur, and urban nerd who is on a mission is to find and capture insights from everyday, extraordinary living and share them with others.

Sarah Peck joined the show as the Unmistakable Podcast was recorded live in front of an audience in New York City! She spoke about childhood, becoming a parent and how that changes your way of thinking, her creative process, and much more.

Sarah Peck is a writer, open water swimmer, designer-entrepreneur, and urban nerd who is on a mission is to find and capture insights from everyday, extraordinary living and share them with other